Theme1- young, unashamed and still faithful
Thank you for taking a step forward to read this. The lord will bless you.
The theme for this chapter is young, unashamed and still faithful. Do you understand the meaning of these three words?
Young; when you are still youthful and not old. It is funny when you hear young people saying that they will serve the lord when they are older. If you are as young as I am (not telling you how old I am), you will realize that no matter how young you are you can serve the lord. Let me give you an example of a rapper who i will not name but will refer to as Will. He was 12 when he started rapping. Rapping about himself, money and other worldly things. Then at the age of 14, he met GOD and now he is genuinely dedicated to God. He uses his skills in rapping to praise God. He was 14 years old when he met God. He did not wait until he was 30 years to praise God.
Unashamed: this is when you are not embarrassed about your behavior or attitude even though people do not approve. What really confuses me is why people are ashamed of God. In my school, we have fellowship every Thursday, during this one hour, you are meant to just praise God but there are some people who do not. When you are meant to sing and clap, they just stand or worse they sit down and fold their hands. During the preaching, they would dose off and will be snoring during the preaching. They do not want to show that they are Christians. They are ashamed of Christ because they do not want their friends to think of them as a spiritual kid. Later in time this will be thoroughly discussed.
Faithful; supporting someone even in a difficult situation that is in an honest and loyal way. The one problem that Christians find hard is being faithful to God especially in this era where there are so many things that you can do to make you famous or rich. There are people who abandon Christ for worldly riches or fame. They lose the way and start following the world's false teaching.
Now that we know a little thing about our theme. Let us really discuss the message behind it.
Let me start with this occurrence:
A man was given 300 lashes for proclaiming the gospel in Saudi Arabia. Do you know when I saw this, I talked to God and I said to myself "these people surely have a place in heaven, even though he is being persecuted by the world he is still faithful to Christ and he is not ashamed of Christ."
We all know Saudi Arabia is a Muslim dominated country but did you know there are still Christians in this country. Then I realized they had the three qualities that I am talking about; they are young when they see the light, they are not ashamed of the gospel and they serve God faithfully.
Let me tell you the truth, you are never too young to accept Christ into your life. The only hard part would be being faithful to him and changing for him. You wan't to know a secret? You do not have to do it by yourself. You cannot do it by yourself.
All you need to do is just take the step towards him. This message is just a small step; you need to take a leap. How do you do this? It is simply by going to God and accepting Jesus as your lord and personal savior. I want you to learn that you cannot change yourself only Christ can change you and that is if you allow him. When you have turned to him, let me tell you he will never let you go on alone, he will always stick by you whenever you do something that a man would see as strange but Christ will see as a beautiful thing. He will take you as you are and he will change you from the inside out
One thing that really breaks my heart is seeing a person who has the chance to serve God but is reluctant or scared in doing so. What are you afraid of? Let me tell you one of my greatest achievement in my Christian life; have you ever preached to your peers? Imagine a girl who barely just turned thirteen preached in the adult church and everybody got the message. Tell you the truth the week before all my friends were laughing at me because they thought I was in a predicament ( here's a secret, I wasn't the first choice for the job but unknown to my friends my Pastor gave a new list and wrote my name as the preacher), I actually thought I was in one. When I went to school, it was the same thing when I told my best friends.
As I was on that stage, preaching I began to shake. It did not help when i looked up and saw myself on the monitor. Then there were times when I started speaking too fast and I started to forget what I was meant to say. I want to thank the lord that he helped me and I got through it.
Let me tell you something, it does not matter how young you are, you can always praise the lord. The major problem is that we do not realize that the lord is more important than anything in your life is. Do you believe that the things that we do on this earth for our status or riches matter. They do not. You never know if something bad might happen to you. If you die do those things matter?
The lord wants to give you a part in his sweet victory over the forces of darkness. In any story, you see a good person and a bad person. The story only portrays how these two struggle for victory over the other. There are times when the bad person beats the good person. The thing is that the good person always wins at the end of the story because no matter what the bad person throws at him he still gets back up and keeps on fighting.
That is how our lord Jesus is. He fought the devil and freed the captives. When he was being insulted, beaten, slandered and spat on, he suffered a lot but he still got up and continued fighting, why? He wants us to be free and because he loves us very much. Do you want his sacrifice to be in vain?
Prayer
Lord Jesus have mercy on me, I know that I am a sinner but I want to come back to you. I've hurt you and I want to say that I am sorry, please forgive me.
Lord give me the strength and courage to never be ashamed of you even when people hurt me because I love you
Thank you for those missionaries that have been torture or killed for your word
Bible passages
Matthew 19:21
Romans 1:16
Luke 14:27
Luke 12:7
Mark 6:34
Author: i just thought that if i am doing something, i should be praising the lord's name. if you read this thank you for believing in the lord. I'm going to be updating at least every week preferably on Saturdays or sundays
