Let Them Mock God Will Deal with Them.

Next time a young person mocks you to cause a negative reaction that dishonors God, remember what God thinks of their actions. God sees it and feels no differently now than He did at the time of Elijah.

2 Kings 2:23-25

"23 Now he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the road, some young boys came out from the city and ridiculed him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” 24 When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two of the boys."

Notice how many of these young men in Elijah's day, who were coming against Elijah? There must have been a lot because the bears tore up 42 of them.

God does not do things exactly the same way He did in Elijah's time but eventually, those who do not repent from their mocking will see the wrath of God on them.

God still hates sin, He still hates disrespect to the elderly and He still punishes those who harm His children. Those who love Christ will be mocked at times but they will not be crushed by the ridicule.

2 Corinthians 4:8-10

"8 we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying around in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body."

No one can harm our soul or the Spirit of Christ Who lives in us. If they mock us they mock Christ. If they beat our body they answer to Christ. If they kill us they send us home, the place we love to be.

Our bodies are only a shell we live in, when we depart this life our body rots but our soul is complete and rescued from this body of death into the presence of Jesus Christ.

Romans 7:24 "O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"

Those who mock and demean us only strengthen our resolve. Those who kill us only send us to where we want to be, in the arms of our Savior and with all the other believers who went before us.

Hallelujah, mockers, liars, and murderers cannot harm us, they can only harm an earthen vessel that rots in the grave without the soul or the Spirit. Our bodies are not us, they are a shell that holds our soul and the Spirit of God.

May our witness to the very end be one of confidence in the Lord, and disregard for what this world does to us. Hallelujah!!!