“Everyone will hate you because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.” Mark 13:13

I had just been insulted! Kinda! The woman I was talking to was a nurse doing diagnostics on me. I don’t know quite how it happened, but somehow the subject became her anger at society that didn’t believe in God! My kinda girl… or so I thought! Telling her I was a Jesus guy didn’t help. Her response was, “I believe that all ‘God’s’ are the same! HUH???

My reaction of shock was brief, but wanting to get more information, I asked her about sin. “What do imperfect people have to do to stand before a perfect God?” I asked. She didn’t have a good answer. She was just upset that people were selfish and didn’t see the big picture that there are ways to treat each other that come from some deity somewhere!

The lady’s disgust was written all over her face. She hated people who hated! When I pressed her about Jesus’ claim that HE was the only God, she looked at me with those same kind of eyes! Hmmmm! I used this popular bumper sticker as a prop today to show that just because some folks believe something is possible… doesn’t make it so! Read the verse again!

I’ve often wanted to talk to the owner of one of those stickers to find out what they mean by it. All the founders of every religion, except Jesus, are dead and buried! Only Jesus was raised from the dead (historic FACT) and offers me a way to beat the grave myself. But many folks just like the idea of one big happy family under all gods. But even Jesus didn’t offer that!

So what do YOU believe about Jesus? Who hates YOU because you love Him?