"Should others slander you and hurt you and say all kinds of lies against you, on my account, you are blessed," Matthew 5:11.
On Jesus' account. Make no mistake. Jesus keeps close tabs on this stuff. Whoever upholds Jesus has God's full attention - and whoever abuses whoever follows Jesus, they have God's full attention, too. Who keeps track of the long-gone prophets and their persecutors? God does. He remembers their abusers as easily as we remember ours. Justice comes. The judge stands at the door. But the point here is not that. Here, the point: You are happily blessed because people abused for Jesus know they have great reward in the skies. True Word. Sky kingdom.
Standing by a brother or sister today, we uphold Jesus, our Lord and Savior! We do not fear whose power merely extends to this world. Together, we give thanks to God, the Deliverer over all worlds. Blessed. We be glad.
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