There are many reasons why people may choose to be bold. Some because of their personal acheivements, others because of an earthly inheritance, others because of a social status, good looks and so on. However, how many do you know of being bold because of a hope they hold on to?
Not just any hope for we know that there are many who’s hopes end up frustrated and undersatably so, for we know that trusting in man to be perfect is, well, hopeless.
The hope I speak of is that of the followers of Christ. The hope that our King and Savior will soon return for His people. A hope founded on the life of an obedient son, who endured suffering, blessings, cursings, dying as a man on a cross, deafeating death, satisfying Gods wrath, raising from the dead, ascending to the Father, sitting at the right hand of the Father, interceding for His people and awaiting the day in which we will all be reunited as one in His glory to come!
Our hope is not merely a wish or a prayer, it is the word of God spoken and declared by God the Son to His followers; “In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.” John 14:2-3
So if we are bold let us be bold in our hope, our savior, our King! If we are to be bold let us be bold in sharing this power which we find in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Let us be bold to death if need be that if even one sinner turn his back on sin or if none, it is all to the glory of Christ. For truth divides that which is from that which is not.
Let us be bold in preaching the Gospel which has the power to loose any man from the power of slavery to sin and death!
Let us be bold not only due to knowledge but because we too experience the power of the saving grace of our Lord for if we attempt it only upon our mere understanding we are sure to face defeat. We must know our savior, we must experience such grace, we must testify of it not only in word but also in deed for what good is faith without action?
Let us be BOLD in all humility for we boast not in ourselves but in Christ alone!
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. Acts 4:13
Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. 2 Cor 3:2
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