Read Psalms 44. Read the whole thing… think.
The highlight in it:
11 You have made us like sheep for slaughter
and have scattered us among the nations.
12 You have sold your people for a trifle,
demanding no high price for them.
13 You have made us the taunt of our neighbors,
the derision and scorn of those around us.
14 You have made us a byword among the nations,
a laughingstock among the peoples.
17 All this has come upon us,
though we have not forgotten you,
and we have not been false to your covenant.
22 Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
This is about the Church, and what WILL happen to you IF you are obedient to Jesus throughout this lifetime. When praying in the Garden of Gethsemane to Father, he said, “As You sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world”.
God the Father sent Jesus into the world to (primarily) die on the cross, led as a sheep to slaughter. He says to us, “Look, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves.” Are we ready for a similar fate as he received?
It’ll come: when we (a) repent of our sin and get cleansed and made HOLY & (b) faithfully take up our cross and DENY ourselves daily, obeying Jesus.
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Some other verses to chew on:
Luke 4:18
John 15:18–21
Luke 21:16,17