Hostility

Jesus was not using hyperbole when He warned us of the world's hostility. They love their darkness and hate the light. But that just means that it is even "more important" that we be the lights of the world that He has called us to be. Why? So that men--even hostile men--will see our good works and have to glorify our Father who is in Heaven. As I often say, we make the invisible God visible. What the world believes about Jesus, they believe because of the lives we live. What did Jesus do in response to the hostility of the world? Lovingly died for them. Lovingly prayed for them. "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."