Jesus says it is better to be thought worse than you are and then be publicly vindicated, than to be thought better than you are and then be publicly humiliated.
So here’s the life-changing truth: It is better to be thought worse than you are now, and have the Lord set things right in the last day, than to be thought better than you are now, only to have Jesus put you in your place in the end.
In other words, don’t care much about whether your family and friends and acquaintances and even enemies know what you are really like or think about you. Be true, be real, be humble, and let the Lord settle the matter in the end. In that day, the price of taking the lower place will be seen to be very small indeed.
Are you prepared to wait for the Lord to vindicate you in His time?
John Piper
Pastor/Bible Teacher
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