Sometimes, being misunderstood and misjudged is the price of being an honorable person.

And yet, for the Christian, we can have peace even when we are misjudged and misunderstood. "For do I now seek to please men, or to please God?" The Christian who is in the right, but misunderstood, does not need to fret or worry or try to clear his name at another's expense. Because he knows that one day, in this life or the next, he will be justified, and all truths will be made known. And that frees us up to protect other people's reputations, to do the right thing even if people may misunderstand, and to have true peace even if people think less of us than we would like.