You will have more friends… you will be admired… you will be known… you will be accepted… you can have a lot of fun.
You will be compared… you will be criticized… you will be backstabbed… you will be pulled down… you will be misjudged… you will have fake friends… you will be misled… you will be tempted… you will be distracted… you can be lost.
All these things seem to be inevitable. What is important is to see who will show you the first set of things and who will act and lead you to the second set. Will the wise good people admire you, or will the foolish bad ones? Will the dishonorable people accept you, or will the educated good-mannered ones? Will God appreciate you, or will the devil?
Do not care if the shallow ill-mannered people will criticize you… they are shallow and ill-mannered. Do not care if dishonorable people pull you down… it is just their nature to do so. Do not care if people will judge you… only foolish people judge even though they don’t know enough. Do care if you think God does not appreciate what you have done, what you are doing, what you have become, and what is your purpose in doing something.
Let’s all be models despite the great challenge it gives us. Let’s not be afraid to step up and do that good thing. Let’s not be afraid to be the ones who ask our friends to go to church and pray. Let each of us be not afraid to be the first one to stop doing what is bad. Let’s not be afraid to be the ones who commend people for being humane.
Let’s all be models and feel that great feeling when God appreciates us.
