[Manna - December 8]
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. John 15:18
AS our Master was hated without a cause, so let
it be with us so far as possible, that the hatred, malice,
envy and murder which may be poured out
against us may be wholly unmerited by us—that our
lives shall be as nearly pure as possible; that so far
as we are able our thoughts and words and deeds
may show forth the praises of our Lord, and speak
of our love for all men, especially for the household
of faith.
By and by, when the church shall have
been glorified, and a new dispensation inaugurated,
those who hate us now, largely because they are blinded
by the Adversary and misled, will bow before us, as
the Lord's Anointed, and we shall have the great
pleasure of lifting them up blessing them, encouraging
them and forgiving them; and assisting them
back to the full image and likeness of God. Z. '01-300 R2881:1