Jesus indicates that John the Baptist isn’t a “reed shaken by the wind.” He stood up to King Herod Antipas and called out the despot’s marital infidelity — to the point where Herod threw John in prison and had him executed later on. John had spiritual backbone — and we can share that same resolve. When the temptations come today to let culture influence us, we need to push back and tell the world that Jesus is our only measuring stick in regard to right and wrong (despite our upside-down world endlessly saying to our faces that “right is wrong,” and “wrong is right”).