Reviled, persecuted, falsely accused

Mat 5:2  And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying-

 

Mat 5:11  Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

 

Revile-   'Criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner.'

 

Persecute-   'Subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment.  Harass or annoy (someone) persistently.'

 

Say all manner of EVIL against you.

 

 Evil -

'1. Morally bad or wrong; wicked: an evil tyrant.

2. Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful: the evil effects of a poor diet.

3. Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous: evil omens.

4. Bad or blameworthy by report; infamous: an evil reputation.

5. Characterized by anger or spite; malicious: an evil temper.

n.

1. The quality of being morally bad or wrong; wickedness.

2. That which causes harm, misfortune, or destruction: a leader's power to do both good and evil.

3. An evil force, power, or personification.

4. Something that is a cause or source of suffering, injury, or destruction: the social evils of poverty and injustice.

adv. Archaic

In an evil manner.'

 

*******

 

When you are criticized in an abusive, angrily, insulting manner, subject to hostility, ill treated, harassed, annoyed persistently, called evil in all ways- you are BLESSED.

 

BLESSED!

 

Again, it's so hard to imagine being blessed in those things! When you feel at your worse, at your lowest, degraded, bullied, beaten, emotionally, mentally, and often physically tortured you are being BLESSED in your agony.

 

People would easily say you are CRAZY if you really believe that. Crazy to believe that being abused in any way is a blessing.

 

The thing is… SATAN rules the world and has many, many subjects in us humans that outnumber God's subjects, and Satan will use every single one of his subjects to use any means possible to bring a person to despair- to hopelessness. How incredibly and unfortunately, heartbreakingly successful he's been at producing seemingly hopeless situations. He loves instigating hopelessness and he uses anyone he can to do this. The LAST thing Satan wants is for us to even have a spark of inclination that we are BLESSED in our tortured persecution!

 

Blessed in suffering!? No! Impossible! To believe that means we somehow accept the persecution, condone it in some tiny way even just by believing we are blessed in it.

 

Blessed in our agony.

Blessed in our abuse.

 

Horrific thinking that so many support groups, so many rights groups, so many people would get up in arms about because they just can't begin to imagine any sort of torture being a blessing, the mere idea is completely repulsive.

 

And torture in all it's many, many forms is repulsive, it's hideous, it's despicable, it's atrocious I could go on and on talking about it in all its degrading evilness- the fact that people can be blessed in torture does NOT negates its evil in any way.

 

Being blessed in torture is comprehending that THIS IS NOT THE END OF ALL THINGS, this is NOT WHAT DEFINES US and our LIVES, this horrific torture does NOT take away our HOPE, in fact it can in fact make our hope more real, especially when it is all we all, HOPE in CHRIST and all HIS MANY PROMISES that will be realized fully when HE RETURNS.

 

Stripping us of all hope is the most powerful tool there is because it not only destroys us now, but for eternity. Take away our HOPE of SALVATION IN CHRIST and we are left with NOTHING.

 

 

Mat 5:11  Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Mat 5:12  Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

 

There are right now, today in our world hundreds if not thousands of people being tortured for the sake of their belief in our SAVIOR.

 

There are right now, today in our world millions being tortured in some way- great or small, physically or emotionally, mentally and manipulatively all in order to keep them from gaining an awareness of their need of Christ. Satan doesn't want a single person loving Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, not one single person.

 

So what about all those who do not feel any abuse in any way at all? Could it be that Satan has them in another way?

 

We are blessed in our persecution, the prophets were persecuted, God's people are persecuted. 

 

Is it true you can be persecuted even if you are not God's? Yes. But every single human being has the chance of being God's, EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE WORLD!

 

The HOPE found in Christ this causes us to REJOICE in our suffering, the HOPE found in Christ this causes us to be EXCEEDING GLAD. The HOPE found in CHRIST is our REWARD in HEAVEN!

 

By HIS GRACE and MERCY, all through HIS LOVE may we have HOPE no matter what, no matter what!

 

This life is TEMPORARY to ETERNITY. Our suffering temporary to eternity.

 

Please LORD bless us, keep us in YOU always!