Greetings!
Have you noticed? Christians around the world including here in America are more and more under attack by those who do not know the love of Christ.
As I write, a Christian Pastor in Iran is facing possible execution simply because he chose to follow Christ and refuses to renounce his faith that Jesus of Nazareth is God. In Africa, thousands are being slaughtered by Muslims simply because they are Christians. A Pakistani official was recently murdered by Muslims because as a Christian, he opposed unjust Sharia laws. The people honored the killer as if he were a saint! The list of atrocities and persecution grows each day. Even a Christian group at Notre Dame is being singled out for not conforming to the politically correct ideas the administration and faculty wish to force upon them. 'What manner of love'
The Apostle John wrote more about the love of Christ for people than any other Apostle. His relationship with Jesus was so close, so intimate, that the twisted and perverted, obsessed with their sexual appetites, caught in loneliness and despair, assert that it was a homosexual relationship.
 The consequence of their distorted and darkened minds is their inability to comprehend or imagine a God Who - out of love for mankind - would come to earth to endure the sin and cruelty to Himself of those he created in order to reconcile them to Himself. They do not and cannot grasp that kind of love. . . without seeing it in others. And therein lies our calling: to die to ourselves, as God did to His rights and prerogatives, that others may see Christ in us, "the hope of glory," and enter in to a new and living way, a way that leads to abundant, and eternal life.
Photo by Judge Eric Valentine "O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me. And I have declared unto them your name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith you have loved me may be in them, and I in them." The Bible, The Gospel of John the Apostle, Chapter 17, verses 25-26 | 
