Speed Bumps in the Highway

"I don't understand people who drive the speed limit!" I'm pretty sure those were the precise words that I thought to myself...and then I flushed and laughed out loud. I was basically saying: "I don't understand people who obey the law." But truly, I am not alone.
Many people do not understand people who keep God's laws. To the watching world we look "slow"...old-fashioned, repressed, oppressed. We are not understood. People want to go and do whatever they want wherever they want as fast as they want. So, we should not be surprised when as followers of Christ (people who obey God's speed limit) we are seen and treated like speed bumps on the highway. But instead of responding naturally -- in anger or self-righteousness -- we should respond as Christ responded to us: in love.