The World’s Birth Pains

18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 

23 Whoever hates hates me Father hates my Father also.

25 But this is to fulfill what is written in the Law:  “They hated me without reason.”

John 15

Christians, do not be surprised that the evil things we see happening today are directed at you: the attacks on the family, the unborn child, God’s sacred plan for marriage, His perfect design that a man was made to be a man and a woman a woman, and His beautiful gift of the sexual relationship between a man and a woman only. God’s Word is being defiled by those who blatantly twist His teachings around to suite their own perverted life styles. 

What’s going on with this world? Max Lucado says that like a woman giving birth our world is in the third trimester when she is told to finally push to birth her child. What we see happening in our nation and in the world where Christians are being persecuted and killed is a sign that the coming of Jesus is near. “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me”. Nature is pregnant with violent storms, destructive wild fires, earthquakes, famines, wars and rumors of wars, global conflicts, everything that we see going on is fulfilling the prophesy that Jesus’ return will be soon. 

But if we are disciple of Christ we need not worry. Those who hate us and want to harm us will not prevail. We must continue to lift Jesus up no matter what  they say about us or do to us. Just a push or two and we will be with Him for eternity. With Christ in us we can take anything that happens. Greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world.