Daily Devotional. AND YE SHALL BE HATED OF ALL MEN for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, THE SAME SHALL BE SAVED. Mark 13:13. If you read all of Mark chapter 13, it seems to be an orderly chronology of events at the end of our life as usual, you know, the American Dream and all that. Either way, a time is coming when Christians WILL be hated by ALL nations, America included. Here’s a little test to take. Can you keep your cool, or do you get angry, if someone cuts you off on the highway? What’s your first thought when someone takes your pew at church? Someone calls your wife a #####. Or your kid gets roughed up by a bully at school? Got the picture? If you can’t LOVE THEM WITH THE LOVE OF CHRIST NOW, what are you going to do when Satan turns up the heat? Your kids are (falsely) arrested for selling drugs in school. You’re fired and (falsely) arrested for embezzling money from work. Your daughter’s been (falsely) accused of sleeping around. What’s behind all this? Satan doesn’t want to only kill you, he wants to first kill your testimony, your credibility, and your family. He wants you to give up, give in, give out, and quit God. THIS IS WAR, HERE AND NOW, and today is just a skirmish. What’s it going to be like tomorrow when Satan drags you through the mud? Will the Word of Christ, the Blood of Christ, and the Love of Christ be all you need to keep Walking with Christ? YOU’VE BEEN HAND CHOSEN FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS. Are you Growing in CHRISTLIKENESS? You’re no more special than any other Saint, but you are here, now. God knows what He’s doing. You could have been born anytime in the last 6000 years, BUT GOD PUT YOU HERE, NOW, what are you going to do with it, that you, AND MANY OTHERS, can, Be Blessed?
