Our Place His Place

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We are left for a while in a world where everything is against us because it is against Christ, and we belong to Him. But we know that He waits to come for us, and we wait for Him from heaven; and while the waiting lasts, we are to expect, if faithful to the Lord, nothing but suffering from the world. And yet we can be happy in it, assured that the cross of reproach on earth and the glory of Christ in heaven go together. The cup of trial, the reproach and scorn of men, may be less severe at one time than another. This is for our Father to give as He sees fit. But if we look for anything else as our natural portion here as Christians, we are unfaithful to our calling. Rejection is ours because we are His; "Therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not." 1 John 3:11Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. (1 John 3:1).