“But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.” (1 Peter 2:20b-21, NIV)
To “follow in his steps” means not only going wherever He may go; but because He has left us “an example,” it also means doing as He has done. To be like our Lord is not (in the vernacular of the school house) an “elective course”; it is our calling! – Luther
Daily Encouragement 