There is a phrase, "Nobody likes to have their baby called ugly." The truth is that what we do not like is anything that shows our ugliness. We live much of our life as impostors; posing to be what we are not.
Jesus understood that when he explained to his unbelieving brothers why the world hated him but not them.
John 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
This was not the first time that Jesus explained that his Good News was not as popular as one would expect. John 3:16 is a verse of great promise. However, there is a flip side to the promise of eternal life for those that believe. There must be those that do not believe. Just a few verses later Jesus explains, "And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed (John 3:19-20)."
Am I willing to stand in the light of Jesus and let him expose my ugliness? Or do I keep my facade and stay in the dark? Or another way to ask this question: Am I willing to have the world hate me for coming into the light or is the world and who I am in the dark too important to give that up (John 15:18-19)?
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