Thinking today of Acts 9 .4, it says, And he
fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to
him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?
Jesus is speaking to Saul, and he claims the
hurt. He says that the things that Saul has been
doing to the Christian, to all the Christians,
are actually against his person. The church is
the body of Christ, and we are collectively more
him than we know. This would also mean that with
so -called believers, when they walk away from
the church, that they are in some very real sense
abandoning him. lie to the church and you are
deceiving him or trying to. He is still God,
the Son, and he knows all truth, is the truth,
and he more than takes injustice toward believers
seriously. He sees those injustices as directed
at him personally. I pray for those who have
persecuted the church, even those who live yet
today, persecuting the church in some way or
speaking bad about the church or refusing to
be part of the church. I pray that God will bless
those people and draw them unto himself. Forgive
them, Lord, for they know not what they do.