Living with this dichotomy
Can you feel blessed and favored by God and also cursed by man? Things are getting weird out there, folks. Really weird. The more we shine our light for Jesus, share the Truth - not your truth or my truth, but the Truth - the more we experience hatred and disdain from others. Get used to it. Or as Bette Davis famously said in All About Eve, " Fasten your seatbelts; it's going to be a bumpy night." The confusion happens when we mistake being mistreated by others as mistreatment from God. After all, God is Sovereign. So He could stop others' persecution of us, right? Yes, of couse He could. Yet stuff happens. There is a huge spiritual battle raging around us 24/7. Those who oppose Christ - many, ignorantly - they don't even know why they're opposed, but they just are - are rampant. Haven't run into many? I'd say you are in the Holy Huddle, then. This is not how Jesus lived His life. Jesus was "out there" among the people - many of who