May we feel less hurt and celebrate more when we are insulted for Christ’s sake. The next time slander or insults affect us, let us pray out to God that we would rejoice and be glad! Let us wear the heart-wrenching insults as a badge of honor for our Lord!
“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you (Matthew 5:11-12).”
… Therefore, I wear these lies and slanders as an ornament. It belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached, and reviled; since all this is nothing else, as my God and my conscience do bear me witness, I rejoice in these reproaches for Christ’s sake.”
Excerpt From
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
John Bunyan
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