Adjustments to Seasons of Change Produce Hatred From The World

There are seasons of change in nature; Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. In each of these seasons there is a drastic change from the other, the two most dramatic of course are Winter and Summer, at least for most of North America. The changes occur in a set pattern for a reason, it is so plant life may grow and ground water for sustaining all earthly life may be replenished, in other words it is vital and necessary for life to exist.
We sometimes are inconvenienced when the heat or cold becomes unbearable for us to stay in uncontrolled environments, but nevertheless we adjust, there is no choice. As Christian believers, we must also adjust to the seasons of change that occur to our environment within which we live. We cannot tolerate extremes socially and morally that conflict with the sure foundation of the scriptures. There must be an adjustment toward righteousness, if we have fallen into one of the extremes of worldliness in which we live: hate, lust, pride, jealousy. All these represent irresponsible acceptance and tolerance of sinful behavior within us.
There is also an unwillingness to take a stand of righteousness regarding matters that will make us unpopular with worldly viewpoints, we call the compromises of sin as being loving and tolerate. How is it love when you decide which part of the scriptures to accept and agree with and which parts to ignore? The balance of scripture is there for a reason, many times to save us from sure destruction of our souls, but we dare not be labeled a trouble-maker or agitator, as it most surely would carry a price of some kind against us. We have so soon forgotten what our Savior said as recorded in John, chapter 15:

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ He who hates Me hates My Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father. ²⁵ But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

 We must be a loving people, but we must also stand for righteousness within our own behaviors, or we have nothing to offer a dying world but nice philosophy. The power of a transformed life only comes as a result of a strong witness given out of a loving heart from such as one with a sure character of Christ, molded in the refiner's fire, otherwise we are just mouthing words, talking about a grace we know nothing about. Cheap gospel messages and cheap shoes are a lot alike, they just don't hold up.
Thanks be to God that many of you know the grace blood of Christ requires a responsibility on our part, to be obedient to the doctrines of the word of God through scripture , living a humble careful life through prayer and fasting, adjusting to the seasons we find ourselves in as the Lord gives direction.