In
the following passage, Jesus warns us that the world will hate us
because of who we are in Christ. You see in our world, it is easier for
people to hate that which they don't understand, which is sad because
they may never hear God's call on their heart through the din of the
world's noise, and if they do may still reject it because of the lies of
the world.
Even though He tells us we will be hated, He gives us assurance of the hope, and strength, we will have through, The Holy Spirit.
When it feels like the world, and its pressures, are too much to take,
think back to the garden of Gethsemane, and the burden of what Jesus was
wrestling with, and realize that the Advocate, our comforter, The Holy
Spirit, is there to bring to remembrance, all things that Jesus did for
us.
John 15:18-26
18 “If the world hates you, remember that
it hated me first. 19 The world would love you as one of its own if you
belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to
come out of the world, so it hates you. 20 Do you remember what I told
you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me,
naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they
would listen to you. 21 They will do all this to you because of me, for
they have rejected the one who sent me. 22 They would not be guilty if I
had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their
sin. 23 Anyone who hates me also hates my Father. 24 If I hadn’t done
such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would
not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they
still hate me and my Father. 25 This fulfills what is written in their
Scriptures: ‘They hated me without cause.’
26 “But I will send
you the Advocate—the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the
Father and will testify all about me. 27 And you must also testify about
me because you have been with me from the beginning of my ministry.
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