An island in His hands

Have you ever stood in a crowd of people and felt completely alone? Have you ever had people look at you funny because they know you are different and don't know how to treat you? Tonight felt like that. I was with a group of friends listening to a band surrounded by a lot of people and felt like I was on an island. Is this what it is like to be a Christian? Are we to stand alone knowing that people may look at us weird and leave us out? Yet we still have to lift our heads high and go on knowing we are doing His work? That's what life is supposed to be.
God called us to serve him no matter what. He told us that the world may hate us but that we were to follow him no matter what because that reward will be greater than we will ever be able to imagine. We will spend our eternity with him! He never told us that it would be easy...He knows that there will be times that it will seem to be impossible, but I was reminded by a friend that God never gives us anything we can't handle. He knows what we are capable of handling and knows that we will make it out the other side relying more on him than we ever did before. He wants to draw us closer to himself even if it hurts. He will never let us go no matter what! He loves us that much. That is what I have to keep reminding myself of... Im here for a purpose and I can handle whatever comes my way!