Persecuted for Good

Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.  1 Peter 4:19

A missionary wife once shared this verse to me.  She explained to me that when we do right, we will suffer persecution, and when that happens, give that situation over to God, let Him handle it, and just keep on doing right!

Have you ever been persecuted for doing something good?  For doing the right thing?  If so, you are in the same group as Jesus because Jesus was constantly being persecuted for doing good.  Just check out the Gospels.

1 John 3:12 explains why this usually happens:

    Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother.  And wherefore slew he him?  Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Envy.

Jealous men want good men to stumble.  It's as simple as that.

John Bunyan once said, "Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake."

I would rather be persecuted for doing right, than doing wrong...

    But that's just me!

"The devil doesn't persecute those who aren't making a godly difference in the world."

    Paul Chappell