It has been six or seven years since we saw our son's family. There is a spirit of anger that has taken the hearts of many people in our children's generation, much of their bitterness is without reason. They did this to Jesus Christ, accusing Him of doing miracles by means of the devil. We too will not escape this as long as we love Christ.
If the anger were rational and there was love in their hearts, they would want to work things out, speak openly and listen intently, but because the anger is irrational, there is a refusal to speak or listen without hate and contempt in their voices. I am convinced that the devil has twisted their minds, causing them to believe there is a reason to be angry, when there is not. The only solution is for these raging adults to find Christ.
Until the angry entitled and rebellious generation is able to come to the end of themselves, there can be no relationships around the Lord, they will either be superficial or they will be broken.
John 15:24-26 "…24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’ 26 When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—He will testify about Me.…"
When you are reviled, are following Christ and have prayed to understand why there is contempt toward you, my guess is that you are being maligned because of Christ Who lives in you.
In my personal life there are those who have gossiped behind my back but will not talk to me, they prefer to believe the gossip rather than know truth. Perhaps it is sin within the heart of the revilers that they are hiding, openness is not an option for them, it might expose their sinful hearts.
1 Peter 4:12-19 "1 Peter 4:12-19
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
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.
14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator."
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