This
is an excerpt from Carmen LaBerge's new book, Speak the Truth:
How to Bring God Back into Every Conversation.
The
world does not like the message of surrender and the world takes it out on the
messengers. We should not be surprised when what God tells us to expect comes to
pass. We should get used to being called names, charged with being politically
incorrect, or accused of standing on the wrong side of history. Jesus
experienced far worse for us. We should come to expect the unbelieving world
will be hostile toward those who are aligned with a Lord it does not acknowledge
and a God it rejects. We should expect negative things to be hurled in our
direction – insults and all manner of hateful speech.
