Why do you keep your faith in Jesus secret?
Even people with alternative sexual lifestyles no one cares to know about come out with it... & you're hiding?
Girls with lax moral codes put what should be private areas of their anatomy on public display for attention... and you're hiding?
Men with no integrity or discipline parade their immoral escapades and misconduct on social media with their irreverent peers and measure misdeeds like badges of honor... and you keep silent?
In a world where irresponsible and disgraceful parents dress up their children in embarrassing costumes and teach them to speak profanities in the name of politicking... you keep quiet?
In an age where known hallucinogenic drugs are legalized for the general populace, carcinogenic materials are approved for your use, and non-nutritious food is advertised freely as fun food in spite of its detrimental effects for the purpose of profit... you still aren't speaking?
The tobacco industry knew for years their product caused harm and yet they still sold it. Their rationale was to put fine-print, nearly illegible disclaimers under speed-spoken guarantees of medical demise as sufficient warning to the gullible, unwise and addicted sheep who will proceed in their purchases to their own detriment. Yet you think the truth you carry should be held under wraps??
You're shy... you say...
You may offend...
You would rather not be pushy...
You don't want to hurt anyone's feelings...
Political correctness is important...
Popularity is still a desire of yours...
Maybe you'll make a mistake...
You're unsure of yourself...
Someone else may...
God won't mind...
All your excuses...
Let's imagine for a moment that Jesus should also say when He comes to the Father about defending you for mercy and blessings...
I'm shy...
I may offend heaven...
I would rather not be pushy...
I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings...
Political correctness is important...
Popularity aside from this one is still a desire of mine...
Maybe i'll make a mistake...
I'm unsure of this one...
Maybe someone else should defend them...
They won't mind...
If you could imagine the the horror & sadness you would feel if Christ said that... if you can imagine the improbability of Him actually saying that...especially given His power, grace, and faithfulness, why are you so comfortable in your own benign manner of living out your faith?
Why are you so weak?
Why are you so unreliable?
Why are you so undependable to God?
Wake up!!!!
Go!!!
Speak!!!
Act!!
If the devil doesn't have the etiquette, manners, or political correctness to withhold killing destinies, stealing lives in broad daylight and destroying homes, YOU should not feign some pitiful poise and withhold the fire of God burning in your bones!
People MUST know where you stand.
You MUST be clear.
There should be NO ambiguity as a Christian. If you are ashamed of Jesus, He says He will be ashamed of you before the Father!
Luke 9:26
For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
Mark 8:38
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
By the way, note also that it doesn't say He wouldn't let you into glory with His Father and the holy angels...
but He will be ashamed of you.
Like an affiliate of the prince, someone dirty, stinking and haggard appearing in the royal court is a shame to the Prince, so also the one to whom Christ is referring here.
Surely He has saved you, purchased you with the most expensive thing in all of creation, the very living blood of the Creator of the universe in flesh... but like a bad purchase, you will show your own cowardice and not be able to be proudly presented by the Son.
Like a family idiot who though having known the priceless price paid for your free adoption into eternal royalty from hopeless poverty, will you claim shame and continue in the midst of muddied waters before being presented to the Patriarch of the lineage to which you now belong by your older brother?
Where do your loyalties lie?
Speak now...or forever hold your peace.