Following Jesus Can Be Difficult

Making every effort to follow Jesus and His teachings in the world can be difficult at times. Unfortunately there are a lot of people that once meet with adversity decide to stop trying to live for Christ and go back to living for the world and what the world view as acceptable. I say do not shrink and follow what the world tells you what is right and what is wrong. The word is often wrong and will lead you into a worse condition that what you may already be in. Keep your eyes focused on Christ and you will be able to make it through the tough criticism of friends, family and strangers. Sometimes they will say things that will hurt you feelings. Some people will get mad because you are standing up for truth and the teachings of Christ. Most of the time these people are in a bad place and knowing that you are trying to do the right thing and follow God they will be upset because they know that most of what they are doing is wrong. They may need some kind of justification to the wrongs they are doing to make them selves feel better. You pointing out tho them the wrong doing will make those people get a bit hostile towards you. If that is the case pray not just for them but also for yourself. you need a lot of consolation from God to be able to uphold what is right. It is no fun to have people get angry at you for trying to follow what is right but when you think about it, its a lot better to do right by God that a fellow human being who makes a lot of mistakes and often times loves to treed down the wrong path. It takes a lot of courage on your part to up hold your values and desires to please God and not man. So prayer is a huge essential in life to be able to weather those storms and proceed with your mission to work for and with God. God does not change and is never wrong or misleading but people often are. There are a lot of good people out there trying to do the right thing and it is not easy in this day and age but the Apostles faced a lot of difficulties as well for Christ and His teaching and they persevered through it and won their place in Heaven. I would rather follow Chris and His teachings than those ideas and opinions of man. So if you are living for God and facing opposition remember to pray a lot for those people and for yourself and God will see you through the difficulties. As long as you remain faithful to Him, He will in turn be faithful to you. The opinion and judgment of man means nothing, the judgment of God means everything. Be faithful. Peace. T