Because You Are Different

yellow-in-purple_oregon You try so hard to do what is right. You even think you are doing what Jesus would do. You’re honest, you’re loyal, you’re trust worthy. Yet you are misunderstood, mistreated, not trusted. You feel picked on. Whenever something happens you are the one people turn to first to find out what “you” had done. It’s not right, it’s not fair, but it continues to happen to you over and over again, and it hurts, and you just don’t understand.

Can you relate? I can. In the past few years I have been asking God to help me understand, and perhaps He has been trying to tell me, but I couldn’t hear it. Tonight, while watching a movie, I heard it. I heard the reason I have been searching for that would help me understand why. Here is what I heard straight from the movie, “The Accountant”.

“You think if you don’t fight back they will like you? They don’t like you, they don’t dislike you. They’re afraid of you. You’re different. Sooner or later different scares people.”

I know, right? I paused the movie, wrote those words down, and pondered them. They are certainly profound words. Then my thoughts turned to the life of Jesus Christ. He was different, and there certainly were those who were afraid of Him. So much so they wanted Him dead, and they got what they wanted. Because you act differently than they do, they may not understand that you are trying to do your best to be like Christ. They don’t know this, because they don’t know Jesus. Do your best to share Jesus with them. By getting to know, and accepting Him, they will one day accept you.