THE QUESTIONS
I asked God a question, “God, why do you love me when everyone seem to despise me?” The answer came like a flash before I could close my thoughts mouth! “Because, you’re mine, and you’re created in my image and resemblance! To hate you would mean I hate myself!” Then I was directed to John 15:18-19, “if the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as it’s own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.”
We all know God could never hate Himself or people, He only hates the things that people do that are against His will!
Have you ever been so vulnerable that you feel like everyone hates you? I mean, it’s not true; not everyone, but still you feel it because the enemy is working overtime to destroy you, because God’s grace overshadows your life and evil’s reign of terror isn’t over! He comes to kill, steal, and destroy. The more you draw closer to God, the more the evil one despises, hates, and is enraged at you because your efforts threaten him, reminding him of the loss that can never be regained. So, any chance he gets, he’ll infiltrate through any vacant heart lot to get to your very last nerve, even to the point of provoking you to turn against self! Because one person’s trial is different from another’s, when encountering such persons, pray for them if you can. If you can’t, let God handle them without adding false judgment on their pile because you don’t know their story that causes things to result to such a state. But your sincere prayer may bring things to light for you both. In doing this, you show God and self that you’re big enough to show grace toward others as He’s done for you. That’s actually living what you have been taught like a good student, while remembering your battle is NOT against flesh and bones as yourself but against principalities. Often, we may run into people that makes us feel like they’re walking principalities stuffed within a being, our focus of attack must never be against that person but against the evil that seems to possess, empower, control to use them. That, in fact, is also showing that you have history with walking with God, have received instructions for such situations, and you’re bold enough to put such learned skills into effect. Doing this with an understanding that, at one point you also was on the other side of that spectrum and God allowed someone to take patience with you until you matured and received enough of His Grace to overcome. That is actually sowing forward from what you received as a good student who learned well.
Yes! Not everyone hates or despises you. You only have one enemy dear child, brother, sister in the Faith, that enemy is lucifer, satan, the devil, the ancient beast, the very first to corrupt God’s Eden, and dares to attempt to ransack God’s creation, creatures, children at every opportunity given or not!
And so, your question to yourself should be, Am I living daily in the way of God’s word? Am I doing what God expects of me? Do I remain suited with God’s armors to withstand the enemy’s wiles? Am I projecting God’s image and likeness even when I’m sick, angry, sad, disappointed, or indifferent? How Godly am I today as opposed to yesterday? That is only some of the questions that one should ask of self to refine one’s relationship with God in such a fast growing cold and corrupt world. With these goods at heart, one can only project God’s loving goodness outward. For Jesus soon comes, and His word says, “…if it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?” (1 Peter 4:18)! Because “…from the days of John the Baptist until now the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force” (Matthew11:12). If we must show violence in any form, it should be the fierceness in battle when going through spiritual warfare, being aggressive when fighting against evil in order to reach God’s ordained destination over our lives. This is part of the “hot” that God’s word speaks of in Revelation 3:16. To prevent God from spitting you out, it’s in your soul’s favor to have a spirit that’s heated or passionate on doing Godly good, it adds emphasis on the fear of God that resides within you. Because time is at hand, and we’ve been living the last minutes of that last hour before Jesus returns to take home His own. For those who battle until the end and achieve victory, Jesus will give the right to sit with Him on His throne as God did for Him, (Revelation 3:21). So my dear brethren, let us fight the good battle with focus on the crown of glory that is reserved for the faithful; when we will finally hear, “Well done, oh faithful setvant!”
After all your toiling, wouldn’t you like to hear that welcome at journey’s end?
05-11-2023
MBM
Martine Brice 