Today’s Daily Lesson comes from John chapter 15 verses 18 through 20:
18 ‘If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. 19If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world—therefore the world hates you. 20Remember the word that I said to you, “Servants are not greater than their master.” If they persecuted me, they will persecute you.’
Our opposition should not be surprising.
Jesus was opposed. Moses and the prophets were too. So were the suffragettes, the civil rights workers, and everyone who has ever organized for a more basic standard of life and work.
All around the country, opposition to a more inclusive and fully-democratic community is taking place.
We should not be surprised.
Nor should we doubt that the hard-earned rights of yesterday not be in jeopardy today and tomorrow.
Keep walking, children of God; and don’t you get weary.
For we must not let our spirits be overcome by evil; but must overcome evil with good.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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