Two groups of people lived very differently. One group buried their weapons and refused to take up arms. Another group defended that very same group with weapons. Both groups were living very differently but both were following the Savior. It's all too tempting in life to think our life needs to look like [fill in the blank]....but isn't that a very limited view.....isn't there a lot of different ways a life can look and be following the Savior.....
One more story I love is in John 9. I have made all kinds of assumptions about the "whys" in my life or others. In John 9 people were making all kinds of assumptions about the whys of this blind man's life. In the end all the assumptions were wrong. The why was simply so that the works of God should be made manifest in him. This "why" seems to be more accurate I think than my assumptions about my life or the ridiculous ones I make about others.