Have you lost your reputation?
Are you trusting in the Lord?
Have you found a full salvation
from what people think and say?
Do you mean to live for Jesus,
let the World say what it may?
(excerpt from I Come quietly to met you -Amy
Carmichael)
The promise of the Lord Jesus in the gospel of John tells us that He came so that those who believe in Him might have life and have it abundantly... yet in the gospel of Luke we find the Lord Jesus presenting a more sobering fact that if anyone will come after Him, should deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow Him.
There is a cost to following the one who gives us life in its fullness, and pride and self glory has no part in it. If our Lord had people despising and rejecting him, I wonder how can we as his followers, strive on the praise and approval of the people in this world.
