How do you respond when called up on to speak out for the
Lord? If you are like me your first
response may be to pull back in fear, inadequate or unsure that your words will
be right. The desire to be faithful to represent our Savior well is good and
right. However, if our desire is eclipsed by fear and no words come, then we
represent our fear not the Spirit and power given. Christ came that we might
have salvation. He left His Helper with us that we might rely on that Spirit
and demonstrate to our world a loving God who cares more about our hearts than
the tangled words we use to express our hearts.
These words from I Corinthians 2:3-5 reassure us:
And I,
when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you
except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in
plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the
wisdom of men but in the power of God. (ESV)
So Lord, in our weakness may You be strong. May we
know nothing except You, Jesus, crucified on our behalf and may we represent
you well. For our glory alone!
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