Rejoice!!!

Luke 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
6:23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

Beloved, rejoice!!! even when those close to you reject you for righteousness sake, when people make jest of you for righteousness sake. The Word of GOD did not just say rejoice but you should leap for Joy.

Don't be fazed about what people say, keep living righteous. You speak the truth, they castigate you and give you names, for Christ you have been neglected and have lost a lot of privileges just for the sake of Christ. They criticize your dressing saying you are old school, whatever you say and do is resisted. But in spite of all these and even more to come your Lord and Saviour says rejoice, leap for Joy.

Jesus fortold that the world will hate righteousness, the world will hate the truth, that the world will persecute the Believers but He is telling you that irrespective of these you should rejoice!!! leap for Joy!!!

1 Peter 4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

Keep persevering, be persistent, don't be moved by what they will say, consistently and continually live a righteous and Holy life. Don't let the persecution of the world weigh you down or make you weary. Your rewards are great in Heaven.

2 Corinthians 4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Finally, Beloved
Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

GOD bless you.

Shalom.

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