Sometimes the things we ignore say more about us than the things we talk about. Especially when those things involve Jesus Christ.

In other words it matters more that I ignore what Jesus wants about a particular subject. Than another subject I am obsessing over.

For example, it mattered far more that the disciples follow and submit to Jesus than the politics going on between Israel and Rome. Some of the disciples were ready to go to war about their politics (and it might have seemed really justified) but Jesus was almost indifferent about them. He wasn’t moved by the injustices and corruption (there will be day for that).
It must have been very difficult for them to follow him when he was so indifferent about the things they were so angry about. But they did continue to follow.

Imagine if the disciples couldn’t take it any more and ignored Jesus to follow the will of their politics.

That would have been the mistake of their lives. And for any Christian to do the same today is one of the greatest mistakes of our lives.