STANDING OUT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT IS STANDING UP FOR JESUS

Standing out for what is right is standing up for Jesus. It is not complicated. When you choose honesty over advantage, purity over pressure, courage over comfort, you are identifying yourself with Him.

There will be moments when doing the right thing makes you the odd one in the room. When the joke is crude and you do not laugh. When the deal is shady and you walk away. When someone is being mistreated and you speak. In those moments you are not just defending a principle. You are bearing the name of Christ. Jesus said, “Whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 10:32).

He did not hide His love for you. “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). He stood in public shame, carried a public cross, and died a public death. “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” (John 15:13).

So when you stand alone for truth, you are walking in His steps. When you refuse to bend your convictions to fit the mood of the culture, you are honoring the One who never compromised righteousness. The apostles said, “For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:20). They spoke because silence would have denied the reality of what Christ had done in them.

You do not need a platform to stand for Jesus. You need faithfulness. At work. At school. At home. In conversation. In private choices no one else sees. Every act of obedience says He is Lord.

Standing out for what is right may cost you approval, but it aligns you with heaven. And if He acknowledges you before the Father, that is worth more than the applause of any room.

BDD