JESUS NEVER SAID IT WAS GOING TO BE EASY!

JESUS NEVER SAID IT WAS GOING TO BE EASY!
Jesus Says: "Very truly I tell you, NO SERVANT IS GREATER THAN HIS MASTER, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent Him." (John 13:16)
The Christian life is NOT an easy one to live. The world, your family, your friends, will NOT like you. As a matter of fact, Jesus said that they will hate us for following Him.
Jesus said: "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its 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." (John 15:18-19)

The closer we get to Jesus, the more we spend time with Him in prayer and Bible studies, the more we will act and be like Jesus.
Being like Him means we are going to gain many enemies in the world because we will be acting and speaking like He did. (1 John 2:6) Being like Jesus means a lot of people are going to feel convicted around us as they did when Jesus was here on earth.
This is what Jesus told his brothers for the reasons the world hated Him... "The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil." (John 7:7) Friends, there's no way around this one...People are going to hate us because we testify as Jesus did that how they live and what they do is evil.
The real Christ like person is a surprise to many people, in that we don't join the world in living "for self", but the Bible tells us differently.
The "Holy Scriptures" tells us, to live and conduct ourselves as Christ did while we wait for His to return back to the earth.
Friends, TIME IS SHORT!!!
Be faithful...Be an overcomer in Jesus name! DO NOT let ANYTHING or ANYONE stray you from the righteous path...
Soon we will see "THE KING OF GLORY COMING IN THE CLOUDS" (Revelation 1:7, Acts 1:11, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18)
Amen!