Day 3
Boldness

Why so timid? It is something I have often asked myself, especially with regards to sharing the love of Christ. Why do I hold on so tightly to the comfort of my surroundings. Honestly I'm sure a lot of it has to do with Fear, fear that I don't know what is going to happen, fear of rejection, fear of criticism. Or perhaps I am timid because my limited understanding of peace says that we need to be humble and peaceable and timid, not bold and upfront. Mike Yaconelli reminds us in todays passage and devotion that we often need to be bold in our faith, otherwise we may miss out on some amazing thigns that God is going to do! In verse 39 we are reminded that to find our life is really to give it up. That takes some serious guts. Do I have the courage to let go? To lose my life? Logically if we believe all that the Bible says, then it shouldn't take much courage at all because we know the promises of God to be true, and yet, here we are, bound to our own fear of letting go and letting God be at the reigns. I pray that I may have some extra dose of that boldness that gave Christ the courage to say he did not come to bring peace but a sword. Then maybe I'd be bold enough to lose my life.

Journal Entry:
Start here. Okay, so if going down this path with Jesus could get me hurt and get me in trouble, why do it? I'm going to do it because... I believe in Christ, and what He is doing in me through the redemptive work of the cross.

Matthew 10:34-39