The world is going to hate you and persecute you as they did Jesus and everyone that follows Him.

I got my dose of it myself and have been unfriended because of my faith and where I stand. I won’t hide just so their feelings won’t get hurt.

I am here to tell the truth and share the good news of my heavenly Father. The good news is we serve a risen Savior who has overcome death and has prepared a way for us to choose ever lasting life.

God gave us free will to choose Him or eject Him. My hope is that whatever seeds I plant that others will come to know Him. The time will come when that last person comes to know Him and the door will be shut. Come to Him while you still can. You don’t know when your last day on earth my be.

John 15:18-19 King James Version

¹⁸ If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Remember they hated and rejected Jesus first before they decided to hate and reject us.

Do not be discouraged as you are not meant to save them but to plant the seed. The work has been done by Jesus. We are to spread the good news.

Yes, it is disheartening to see them turn away from God and reject Him but you do not answer for the choices they make.

It has been a battle for the ages for Christians to walk and share the gospel. We are not the first and last to have to climb this mountain.

1 Timothy 6:12-16 King James Version

¹² Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

¹³ I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;

¹⁴ That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:

¹⁵ Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

¹⁶ Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

The battle has been won and in the end you have done all you can do. As long as you continue to share the good news with others. To let the light shine for all to see.

We are meant to tell the truth not the fake truth and things that make others feel good. Heaven and Hell is real! Just as Jesus and the devil himself is real.

Do not make it flowery or soft but make it bold and tell the harsh truth of what lies ahead for them. They don’t know, that they don’t know. It is our job here to tell them what is to come and what awaits them should they not come to the Lord.

The saying, “The truth will set you free”, guess where it came from…

John 8:32 King James Version

³² And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Now truth is a bitter word for those who refuse to believe it and turn away from it. Guess what that doesn’t hide the truth or make it any less true.

~ It is far better to know God’s Truth than to be ignorant of it. ~ Billy Graham

So, are you against the grain or do you believe and keep your head down or do you walk in bold faith and stand by that convection?