1 John 3:13 “Marvel not my brethern, if the world hate you.” Commentary: Wow! Are you surprised? The word brethren here translated from the Greek means born of the same womb! That is not of natural birth but a supernatural birth! Jesus said we must be born again! A second birth! These are the ones the world hates however those in the church who are not born again will also hate those that Christ has resurrected from their natural birth! We are not of this world we are from another Kingdom with a King who is eternal and has all power over death, hell and the grave! We are presently in this world but not of this world! We are in love with Christ and do his will in the earth! The world hates you because they hate Christ! He is a curse word to the world! The scriptures say if you love the world the love of God is not in you! God loves the world so much he suffered a horrible death on a Cross for it! We like God love the lost who hate us understanding all must make or have made a choice about him! If the love of the Cross will not draw them what will? The scriptures declare count it all joy when you are persecuted for my names sake! Yes joy in suffering! Why? Because we know our final outcome! Your obituary reads raised from the dead! My refuge is in Christ! Through the Coronavirus and every other challenge Satan can throw at me! Christ defeated our last foe death! I walk with him and he talks with me and tells me I am his own! He restores my soul! He refreshes me in a dry stale world! A world that is dying! We have the good news in the midst of bad news! I trust the living among the dead! He is raising me from the dead! The empty tomb! The judge of the living and the dead took my judgment upon himself on the Cross! I am a pen of a ready writer proclaiming his love to the world! Do you trust in Christ and him alone? Are you in his Ark safe from the storms? He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock! Is your boat rocking from the storms of life? Sinking? Invite Jesus into your boat! He will calm the storms! The Coronavirus does not have the last say in your life! Death will never hold you in the grave! He has risen! Walk by faith and not by sight! This natural world was created by the supernatural! Death is natural but life supernatural! Do you trust this natural world but the supernatural God who created it? Trust not your own efforts but the completed work of God on the Cross! We can never earn this gift! We just have to receive it! The Christmas gift is in the Tree of Life! The first tree you chose is not working so try the fruit of this tree! Eternal life free from the law of sin and death! Merry Christmas! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com