Rocio's thoughts on 'Perseverance, the Skit'

So I've been practicing the 'Perseverance' skit, and my bones hurt from falling and being beaten up by imaginary people in my place. Tis painful! But more piercing and convicting is the skit's story.
I wonder, can one be a true Christian and not go through this in life? Is being a Christian so easy as to just profess it and you're safe, that's it, nothing more to it?
I was jolted by the realization that: if I'm not ridiculed in life for following Christ, am I truly identifying myself with HIM to begin with?

The main character is every Christian, not just a preacher. It's the high school teenager, its the young adult. It's every Christian's command to 'Go, tell the good news, I am with you...always'
I go with an initial enthusiasm, His Words in my hands...then rejection, then a couple of beatings. Slowly I try to crawl back up. The Holy Spirit finishes picking me up and points me again to the Word. I'm told to pick it up again. He's empowered me. He sends me out again, to speak HIS words.
I think I can do it my way and yield better results...not so. Yet more beatings, and I start to think, forget it God, find someone else. I want nothing to do with this, with you...nothing! I start to leave, I stop, I look back, I can't leave...He calls me to Himself...I can't leave...He receives me again, points me to His word, and again tells me 'Go, with My words Go.'
All the time He's behind me, in the background it seems, orchestrating events. In the end, it's not me who calls, it's not me who chooses. X calls each one and says 'come to ME.' I am only His instrument. Those He calls he allows to become His children. And I share in the joy of having brought people back to HIM.
But after the beatings and the ridicule, do I get back up? Do I trust Him? Do I question Him for allowing the beatings? When I walk away, do I come back? Am I bold, do I care more what other people might think of me....Do I love Him more than any other opinion in this world??? to do anything to identify myself with Him?
I have alot of thinking to do...