PROMISE FOR FEBRUARY 26TH

"Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake." Matthew 5:11

"BLESSED are ye," signifies that persecution is a favor from God...not because of the reviling, but because they shall say these things of you falsely, for Christ's sake....All that we suffer now is storing up for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, if borne for Him. From this standpoint we should really desire persecution...realizing that if we lack it, we lack one of the evidences of being true disciples of the Lord; we rejoice when in the providence of God it is our portion. R. 5544, c.1, p.4-6.