Our Lord understands what it feels like to be excluded, rejected, unwanted. He warned, “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own.…but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you” (Jn 15:18-19, NIV). Don’t be fooled by the world’s warm fire. Jesus has a better fire, stoked by His love.