Jesus & You [On Hold]

✝ Our Brothers & Sisters In Christ ✝

          Great men and women of God have face persecution throughout the centuries since Christ coming to Earth. Starting from the prophets of the Old Testament to the New Testament, we have seen the shed blood from followers of Christ. These people that gave their all to their God, to the same God that we worship and love. The great I Am.

          How many cases have we seen of the persecution of the church? ISIS has taken upon themselves to hurt our sisters and brothers in the Middle East, even in other places. More more, the church continues to face persecution. Christ warned us about this, but to see it just lets us know that the end times are near.

"And you will be hated by all for My name's sake. 

But he who endures to the end will be saved"

(Matthew 10:22)

          How truly were Jesus's words from thousands of years ago. He truly knew the hatred that people would feel against His followers, people who were angry because their sin was exposed, because they can't have an excuse as to why they neglected their salvation or ignore the knowledge of a Savior. We are meant to be light in the middle of darkness, Jesus being the light of the world through each one of us. 

          Do you think people that live in darkness would love the light when this so called light exposes every single dark deceit that has taken place in their lives? No, instead they would reject this light, reject the person bringing it. That is what Jesus meant, they rejected Him. They hated Him because His holiness, His goodness, His obedience, His everything showed them how imperfect, how unholy, how empty they were without their true God and Savior.

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy 

to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."

(Romans 8:18)

          Jesus wants us to know that nothing that this world can do to us, nothing that is painful can compare to the glorious joy, glorious peace, and love we will feel once we are in His total presence. Once we are overwhelmed by His love and devotion, every single sorrow, every painful memory, every tear shall be wiped away and replaced with a smile full of joy.

          All of my brothers and sisters going through different trials. Whether been persecuted for believing in Christ, or being judge by the world as a crazy person, or put on trial. Any discrimination done against you, all the names that you have been called. One day you will see the reward coming from The Lord himself. We will be able to see Jesus. His tender smile, His consuming love, His passion for truth, justice, for the lives of each of His followers. The glory that we will see will be so great that every pain will be taken away from us, we won't need the sunlight anymore because He will be all the light that we need in our lives. 

"Even when our circumstances remain difficult or when we face trails again and again, 

we can take heart in you, Jesus, because You've overcome the world." 

(Teske Drake)

          He has overcome! He has won! His love won when He hang in that cross for all of us. There is no turning back. We have strength in Him, we find strength in Him because we know He has defeated death, sin, sickness, curses, condemnation, and more. He has defeated Satan and darkness on that cross. He exposed their work of evil, He exposed who they were and what they did; He overcame the grave and won over them. How wonderful is our God. He is yours and mine. We know His power, we know the immense love He has for us that He sent His begotten Son in exchange for us all. We have hope, we have faith in what He did and who He defeated. All the struggles, all the tears, all the pain, and afflictions of this world will not stop us from one day obtaining the everlasting joy and happiness that The Lord will grant us on that day.

          So we have this hope in Jesus Christ, that whatever we face, we will be able to do so in His strength. That all things work for good to those that love and fear The Lord. He takes care of us. Just like I mentioned above, like those three Israelites that decided to be bold, courageous for God. They decided to walk by faith and not sight, they believed with all their heart that God will save them but even if He didn't, they wouldn't disobey and worship other god that wasn't Him.

          So now I ask you, that whatever the hardship or trouble you may be passing. Remembers those other brothers and sisters that are faring badly as well. Let's pray for them, show them the love that they need, loving one another and supporting one another. We need them as much as they need from us. God hears our prayers and delights in seeing His people uniting as one for an ultimate goal, the souls and the defeating of Satan.

God bless you everyone ♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎ Be courageous for God!

Be blessed by this song, knowing that in Jesus' Name everything is possible!

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