If you are living your life to be more like Jesus, you then have another problem. You are not like most of the people around you. The last statement of the beatitudes anticipates the reaction you will get when you pay attention to the first seven. When you truly begin to live like Jesus, you are going to get some serious push back. You need to persevere through the pressure. Put the opposition in perspective. And turn what would otherwise be a negative into a positive.
