Righteous People Should Expect Afflictions And The Holy Spirit (Psalm 34:19; Mark 13:11)
One of our callings with the Forgivin Livin ministry is to free people from some earthly wisdom that contaminates our life in Christ. Today’s texts point to a huge problem in the world that makes people feel guilty if something bad happens to them. It is built into almost every religious tradition that good people have good things happen to them and bad people have bad things happen to them. But this mindset should have no place with followers of Jesus. Why? Jesus is the only righteous person who ever lived and He suffered miserably. This picture shows the beautiful cottage where Maria sings that awful song, “Somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good.” That song has spread lies. We are all bad. Rotten to the core. But our God loves to make bad people good. This is the power of forgiveness and forgivin livin. And as people made good by God, we will suffer afflictions that may make others suspicious of our “goodness.” But our lives are not our own, they are hidden with Christ. So know that you are under the outstretched arms of the big statue in Rio that shows us that Christ covers everything in our lives. You are not guilty. You are forgiven. You are under the gracious arms of Jesus who makes bad people good.
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