December 2

Do you know that cowards won’t inherit the Kingdom of Heaven? (Rev. 21:8) Why? Because you can’t be a coward and a Christian! First of all with Christ living in you and God conforming you into His image, you can’t stay cowardly because Jesus was brave and courageous! Secondly, you won’t survive as a Christian if you are a coward. You will deny the faith or at least not confess your relationship with Christ. You, like me, have probably kept silent when we should have spoken up – next time we will speak up!

Philippians 1:20 (NIV84) — 20 I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

It takes sufficient courage or literally, all boldness to make a matter known publically, so that Christ will be exalted! We have to have the courage of a lion in order to publically make a stand for Christ because…

Philippians 1:28 (NIV84) — 28 without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you….

People are going to oppose us. Heck, people oppose us who are “Christians”. Maybe you have been opposed by someone who is close to you and is supposed to be supporting you as a brother or sister in Christ. Remember this, our real opposition is the spirit of this world, the spirit of Lucifer and the principalities that do his bidding. So take courage and fight spiritually. Take courage so you will never be ashamed and Christ will be exalted.