“He Who Would Be A Christian Must Be So At the Risk of All He Counts Dear In This Life”

The world is never pleased with the people of God. 

The son of the bond-woman still strives with the son of the free-woman. 

Opposition to all that is godly...is stern, constant, and determined. 

Nothing but divine grace can ever enable a child of God to endure the fearful hostility of the enemy. 

Our Savior’s word is still fulfilled:

Mat 10:35  For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.  

The offense of the cross has not ceased! 

It never can cease but by the conversion of the soul to God. 

John 15:19  If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Men of the world have no better attitude towards Christianity than when they crucified its Author, and cast his followers to the wild beasts! 

He who would be a Christian must be so at the risk of all he counts dear in this life. 

The world will heap hatred upon him, will vex his righteous soul from day to day; and if possible, turn him away from his tender walk with God.

~William S. Plumer