What it means to live for God
Jesus deserves our wholehearted devotion because He is Lord. When we follow and obey Jesus wholeheartedly, we may stand out from the rest, seem odd, or even fanatical to some. But to please man before we please God leads to disaster. If we regard our reputation more than the Lord, we are not wholehearted toward Him. God looks at our hearts. We may lose some friends along the way, maybe even some family. But God is worthy of our absolute devotion, wholeheartedly, no matter what the outer circumstances. There is always a cost to following Jesus wholeheartedly, whether it be giving up something or someone that we want. Or it could mean the death of our idea of what our life "should" look like. But I don't think our outer, short-term reality matters as much to Jesus as our hearts do. We may think we are giving up too much, at a loss, if we give Jesus our absolute all. But what we gain is so much more valuable, and it is eternal. We gain the very attributes of Christ