- things like erasing pencil marks from a school textbook, where someone might think that you were erasing something you wrote yourself (not a big deal but look at the second example)
- If you were walking down the road and saw sections of a newspaper strewn along both sides of the road and were to pick up some of it then continued on your way... a cop might drive by, see that half of the newspaper is all over the road behind you and then see you holding half of the newspaper ahead of the mess, you could get fined for littering. [but you probably wouldn't get fined because cops know the difference between picking up and littering and they would be able to tell if they asked you questions.]
I guess it comes down to the reason behind doing something right. We all have to ask ourselves if doing what is right is worth it even if it appears that you are doing wrong.
I remember an example of this in the comedian Brad Stine's book, Being a Christian Without Being an Idiot (I'm serious). In one of the chapters he talks about a man who actually went into a first Strip Club and converted all the women to Christianity who then changed their lives. Now, I wouldn't do this nor do I recommend this, because I can't even handle being in a video gaming forum with sexy image signatures appearing below posts without being tempted, so this would be beyond me, but that's not the point.
The point is that there times in everyone's lives where we are in a situation where we feel like God or the conscience is telling us to do something that makes us look as if we are doing something wrong and other people might not understand you. Maybe you're in a situation where someone is hurting someone who is weaker, and you go to pull the assaulter off and end up fighting him. Someone could walk by and think that you're the one at fault.
Sometimes it isn't whether someone knows you made a right choice, sometimes it's whether you know you made a right choice.
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