I'm sorry about the major lag time between posts. I've been finding that Bible study takes up my blogging time, but since I don't have school today, I thought that I would take the time to do something about the lag.
Recently, Pastor Higgins preached a sermon on how we are to stand up for and evangelize our faith. As a general rule, I don't share and evangelize nearly as much as I need to because I don't appreciate others making fun of me for my faith in Christ (major pride issue for me!!). However, as I started to think about what he (SKH) had said, I started to think "Why am I not defending my king? So many of us will stand up and rant at others when they bash on our favorite sports team (movie, band, etc.), but as soon as there is an opportunity to defend our faith, a lot of people (me included) will most of the time just not say anything to avoid altercations with others. The matter at hand is not that we don't care enough of our faith to defend it (most of the time), but that we are too afraid of having our pride injured to say anything that might get us ridiculed by others.
The only thing that I can think of to remedy this is to put aside our pride and take a stand on the faith in God, and take a moment to set our priorities straight. If we don't defend our Lord and Savior, how are we any different than the rest of the world that Christ wants us to be set apart from? What distinction do we give our faith if we stand back and do nothing when we could be witnessing to someone? Think: God will make provisison for the salvation of those that He wants to save. What if you are that provision for just one person? If you stand back and say nothing when someone is doing something that is against God's moral law, if you are one of the chances that person was allotted, that person may be losing an opportunity for salvation.
It may not be their only opportunity, but we have been commanded
to take the gospel to all men. How are we honoring the Great Commission if we don't do or say anything that gives evidence of our saving faith in the One True God?
A song that I believe goes along with this post is DC Talk's What if I Stumble.
Think about it. Later days.
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3 comments:
Wow, great post Frye guye! Straight to the heart and very convicting. Our pride is always in the way, it is the root of our flesh and an antithesis to the Holy Spirit. May we crucify our flesh with Christ and live like He has made us alive.
Nice shout out to DC Talk. That is my generation. I love it when Pastor Higgins does it.
Good thoughts and a great exhortation. Thanks for writing and sharing, you should do it more often.
Hey Ian,
Another song came to mind when I read your post, it's called "I'm Not Ashamed" by Newsboys.
By the way, you're definitely right. I think a lot of people are scared of what other people will say if we tell them what we believe. Fear of being contradicted or opposed, fear of our pride being squashed, and fear of what other people think is a powerful thing. But it's incredibly important to not let fear get in the way. If you don't let it get in the way, you're golden.
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