Doing what is "right" is often not easy, and it often comes without any tangible personal reward. If something is painful, if the flesh cries out against it, if it would be so much easier or so much more immediately satisfying not to do a thing, then you're probably looking at an act that is "right". Because you have chosen what is right, you may well suffer. You may well invite the ridicule of others. The right you have done may be called wrong, or foolish, or may, more likely, be simply ignored. And yet, this one thing remains: You will be able to look at yourself in the mirror and feel an everlasting peace; for obedience to the flesh, to anger, to malice, to pride, to reprisal brings only self-loathing and a reflection that is dark, and fearful, and obscure.
"He who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does" (James 1:25).
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