Reality Check.

Not everyone will like you.

DEAL WITH IT.

I was trying to get an afternoon nap and this topic came to mind – so here I am! People often associate being a Christian with being a people pleaser or being a “yes-man” and it is not so.

“But let your yes be yes and your no be no” (Matt 5:37)

You don’t always have to do what others want you to do. You don’t always have to be who others want you to be either. Be who God wants you to be. Stop trying to please everyone!

Live at peace with all men, as far as it depends on you, but don’t go bending over backwards to please someone or dash your morals out of the nearest window either. Bill and Melinda Gates might be one of the world’s greatest philanthropists and yet there is most definitely someone that dislikes them and refuses to buy a Microsoft product. Does that stop them from being über-rich? Someone else will buy that laptop and the Gates’ lives will continue as normal.

So what’s the moral of this post? Do your best to live right, but if someone still doesn’t like you don’t sit their being baffled or get upset, after all, even Jesus had haters.

xo