If you are committed to following Jesus and not just being an admirer, people will misunderstand and malign you. They will persecute you and pester you. Be faithful any way.

It’s not about pleasing the world. It never was. They will only be satisfied with you denying Christ. If you gain the whole wide world and lose your very soul, what good is it?

Seek to honor and please Jesus, because in the final analysis, if you have Jesus and nothing else, you have everything. If you have everything else but Jesus, you have nothing.