God and Popularity

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Oct 18, 2021 · 3m

I’m in my fifties, and one thing I wish I’d known about God when I was a teenager is that He understands perfectly what it is like to be popular and to be unpopular. Jesus experienced both during His ministry. When Jesus was feeding people and healing them, crowds hung on His words and followed Him from town to town. Everyone was talking about Jesus. He often had to take off on a boat or head into the wilderness to get away from the crowds and find solitude to pray. When He rode into Jerusalem on a donkey colt, people almost literally rolled out the red carpet for Him by spreading palm…