“For what glory is it, when you are buffeted for your own faults, you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.” Comment: This is the key to the Kingdom of God! Suffering and persecution! You might say God can take it but me? Jesus was despised and rejected of men yet he opened not his mouth! If you are God come down off the Cross! He saved others he cannot save himself? King of the Jews? Prove it! Jesus was persecuted for us and we are today persecuted for Jesus! All Jesus disciples except for John were martyred! John was boiled in a pot of oil and exiled to a slave labor camp on a remote island! No one likes to suffer! All their suffering brought the Gospel to the ends of the earth! We can suffer for the wrong reasons! Righteousness is rewarded and evil is punished! When we are persecuted for righteousness sake then we are living our faith out! We do not look for a fight! We are not to be obnoxious! If you are really living for Christ persecution will find you! However God’s power and love is greater than any persecution devised by men! Flesh and blood shall not inherit the Kingdom of God! Living for Jesus requires faith! You trust God while wicked men trust themselves! Satan thought when Jesus was on the Cross that he had won! However he crafted a net for himself! The enemies of God are always given just enough rope to hang themselves! Like Haman! Like Judas! Jesus said we are to love our enemies! How? Tell them that God so loved them that he sacrificed himself for their sin! That God so loved them that he defeated death, hell and the grave for them! Jesus was raised from the dead for them! If you plant the seeds of God’s love into men you eventually will get a harvest! Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com