“Blessed [morally courageous and spiritually alive with life-joy in God’s goodness] are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil things against you because of [your association with] Me. Be glad and exceedingly joyful, for your reward in heaven is great [absolutely inexhaustible]; for in this same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
Matthew 5:11-12 AMPOr, to put it another way,
“Not only that—count yourselves blessed every time people put you down or throw you out or speak lies about you to discredit me. What it means is that the truth is too close for comfort and they are uncomfortable. You can be glad when that happens—give a cheer, even!—for though they don’t like it, I do! And all heaven applauds. And know that you are in good company. My prophets and witnesses have always gotten into this kind of trouble."
Matthew 5:11-12 MSG
2 comments:
I am glad rhat God spoke to you about this passage, Reverend. I thought about this after our emails about my brother.
Thank you for this post, Reverend. God bless us, and America.
I find it of not that what large portions of the Church consider "persecution" has very little to do with actual persecution. Too often they fear the outcome of a failure to virtue signal rather more than the God.
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