📖 “Blessed (happy—with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition—and to be envied) are you when people despise (hate) you, and when they exclude and excommunicate you [as disreputable] and revile and denounce you and defame and cast out and spurn your name as evil (wicked) on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice and be glad at such a time and exult and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is rich and great and strong and intense and abundant in heaven; for even so their forefathers treated the prophets.” -Luke 6:22-23 Amplified Bible Classic Edition
No one wants to experience persecution. No one enjoys being ostracized or ridiculed. The last thing one feels like doing is leaping for joy. However, we must realize that God’s ways are higher than our ways. We must understand that the servant is not greater than his master. The student is not greater than his teacher. Jesus was persecuted and all He did was set people free and teach the Word of God. They wanted to kill him. They wanted to throw him off of a cliff. They wanted to stone him. They conspired to kill him. Most of us haven’t experienced that type of persecution and probably never will. If we are persecuted, we should be glad about it. We’re in great company. Our reward is rich, great, strong, intense, and abundant.
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