Faith that Comes Out of Hiding

 The other day someone started trying to tell me that, even though he knew I was religious and all that the heaven and hell and God thing was just a bunch of bull to make us feel better. I listened for a few moments.  He has expressed this before but never stayed on it so long, and finally, I did what I should have done all along, long before this.  I defended my faith. I expressed my surety of salvation, and my trust in God as Lord of my life and giver of life.  

I told him he was wrong. He told me I was wrong. We departed company.  I  wondered if I could have witnessed better in a manner a little less challenging?  Perhaps, but at the same time though, any remaining doldrums of faith received a shock charge to increased vitality, as I firmly expressed my faith.   I closed any distance to God in a moment. 

Sometimes I wonder if sometimes confrontation, even persecution is a tool to enable our faith to come out from hiding from the world and from ourselves.  Perhaps we need to know and express occasionally who were are, what we believe, and who we belong to.   Scripture says------

"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear."  I Peter 3:15

Perhaps I should have done the above much sooner?

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