“However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name” (1 Peter 4:16).
It is no shame when you are hated for doing the right thing. Our Lord was crucified and He did no wrong. The world hates light and truth. But there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed. Come into the light and know that in the Lord is goodness and truth. Never be ashamed of the One who has come into the world so that You might leave the world to be with Him forever.
Lord, I do not know why I am ashamed when I should not be. But the world does this to me and I do this to myself. Help me to see things as they are. Guide me to not care, in this sense, what the world thinks. Help me to do what is right even though the whole world were to try to shame me into doing wrong. Only in You can I see what is right and true. Only in You is there hope and a future.
Lord Jesus, You were constantly harassed by those in the world. What did they gain? They are dead and gone, but You have changed the course of the world. Let me not live with my eye just upon the moment, but help me to see You, the One who is in eternity. Guide me in the upward way of the call You have given me so that I may now and always be lead in the way You know I need to go. Amen.
