Reflection - John 15:19
Spurgeon If Jesus undertook to bring me to glory, and if the Father promised that he would give me to the Son to be a part of the infinite reward of the travail of his soul; then, my soul, till God himself shall be unfaithful, till Jesus shall cease to be the truth, thou art safe. John 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you. The World # “Not of this world” was a clothing brand when I was a kid that made emo-styled clothing so edgy teens could be reminded to live a moral life. This was at least how I took the phrase “Not of this world” for most of my life… The phrase shouldn’t be trivialized. But as it was to me (not to blame that clothing brand) it turned one of the most freeing truths about Yahweh’s sovereignty into a list of do’s and don’t’s. It actually moralizes Jesus in pretty much the same way anyone does who brings him up when it’s convenient for the…