Blessed and Joyful Knowing God Rewards those Hated or Mistreated in His Name!

 

Blessed (happy—[a]with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition—and [b]to be envied) are you when people despise (hate) you, and when they exclude and excommunicate you [as disreputable] and revile and denounce you and defame and cast out and spurn your name as evil (wicked) on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice and be glad at such a time and exult and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is rich and great and strong and intense and abundant in heaven; for even so their forefathers treated the prophets.

-Luke 6:22-23

Follow God anyway even when hated or persecuted! People who try to whittle you down are only trying to reduce you to their size. Be happy to know God rewards people who are mistreated in the name of Jesus Christ! Even some dark religious people may bring you down, ignore you, dismiss you, or deny you, but they are not God. God loves you! When you follow Him, practice His commandments, and the teachings of Jesus Christ you have nothing to worry about! People will hate you, they will mock you, they will persecute and try to destroy you, but leap for joy knowing that God is great and He is on your side of love and acceptance in Him! We are blessed by God when we put all of our trust in Him alone, if they hate us, they hate God, your reward in Heaven is so great! What a blessing to know!