Ready to Speak

The Lord is amazing.  He has done so much, for He is God.  He spoke all of creation into existence by the power of His Word (Gen. 1).  This is not a light assertion and yet it is so quickly forgotten when under pressure.  For believers, God is everything.  Jesus is the object of our gaze and of our faith.  When people become believers, God becomes the focus that makes of all of our time and every facet of life.  That being said, for some reason, when believers get in public, around non-believers, they shy away from speaking abou the Lord.   This not right.

Peter says that we should always be prepared to give a defense for why we believe (1 Pet. 3:15).  This is real, we should always be ready to give an account of Christ.  The Lord is the Lord, there is no other and none that is greater than the Lord.  Why would we not want to talk about Him?  He spoke all of creation into existence, this is utterly amazing and should cause fear and trembling at His name.

Moreover, God is holy.  Because of this, He cannot be in the presence of sin.  Adam and Eve as well as all mankind were cast out of His presence because of sin (Gen. 3).  The wages of sin is death.  All sin costs death.  A weighty cost to be paid by every human being.

Fortunately, in God's infinite wisdom and gracious design sent His one and only Son, Jesus, to condescend into human form to take on the sins of all mankind.  Jesus lived a perfect, sinless life.  Because of this, when He suffered a sinners death, He took in His flesh all the iniquity of mankind and thus paid the sin debt to be reckoned to all mankind.  Why would we ever not want to talk about this!?

Additionally, the Holy Spirit lives within every believer for counsel, for comfort, and for guidance among other things. The Holy Spirit lives to radiate and glorify the Son.  When we give testimony to the Lord, the Holy Spirit is activated, aroused by the fragrance of Jesus' name.  Again, this is amazing and awesome: when we want to be in the presence of the Holy Spirit, we are to speak Jesus' name.  Simple.

Yes, it is true that not everyone is a stellar, gifted evangelist.  This is a truth.  However, we are all, everyone of us, called to glorify the Son in word and deed.  Sometimes the deed part is the easier part.  But we need to speak about God.  We need to herald His holy name.  How would anyone learn about the Lord unless we preach it (2 Tim. 1-2)?  Being ready to speak keeps us focused and fixed on Christ, the Holy Lord.