They hate you.

Yesterday I was talking with someone about wanting to go to the middle east and learning the language and culture and you know just being a light, when the person I was talking to said... "why? you know that they hate you, right?"

This question has thus been one I have been pondering... not in a good or bad way persay, just pondering- you know.

The thing is, is that I know that to an extent it is true... yet at the same time I know that I love the people, and frankly I don't really care that they hate...me?! Because they don't even know me, which I think exactly correlates with Christianity as well. More than just people of other religions, but even people who at one time called themselves Christians... some say that they hate God, but they don't even know Him, and yet He loves them because they are His children. The cool thing is that only being in a relationship with God will fill that eternity gap within their being, so not matter what people do to try and feel complete, they wont until they find Him and His love and truly become THE Beloved.

So, why do I want to go to a place where it is said they hate me? Again, as I typed that, I thought of Christ... Could you imagine Christ in the days leading up to Him going down to the earth, think of the critical angels(yeah right, I'm sure they didn't think like this- but its kind of entertaining to think about)

Angel: "Dude, Jesus, why do you have to go- especially down there? You know they hate you right? You know they are just going to kill you, spit on you, and even those you call friends will deny you..."

Jesus: "Yeah, but their my brothers, and I love them. What am I supposed to do, just let them go to hell? I don't care what they do to me as long as they realize what they're missing out on and they know that Dad's just waiting for them to come home... Besides you realize that death can't hold me down, right? I get to RISE UP... man that'll be cool, can you imagine the look on those people's faces- ha... it'll be sweet!"

Okay, so I doubt they talk like that or ever had a conversation like that, but if you think about it its kind of true...

AND Matthew 25:14 says "And this gospel will be preached in ALL the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come." MAN, I want to go home... riding on the clouds at the trumpets call... so I'm gonna do something about it... I'm going to help preach the this gospel to ALL the world and just in case you didn't know the 10/40 on a map is the area in which there are the most unreached people IN the entire world... So that's were I'm going to go- whether they hate me and my God or not... when they really get to know us... I know they'll love us!

So these were just my thoughts for today... Right now I'm looking out my window at a parked white van with someone in it.... thats kind of weird... anyway, as you can tell I'm not staying focused very well, but if anyone reads this if you don't understand or think I'm crazy- it's okay with me, but if you would like clarification, let me know... I like talking, especially about Jesus!