Gracious promise! It is a great joy to me to confess my LORD. Whatever my faults may be, I am not ashamed of Jesus, nor do I fear to declare the doctrines of His cross.
O LORD, I have not hid Thy righteousness within my heart. Sweet
is the prospect which the text sets before me!
Friends forsake and
enemies exult, but the LORD does not disown His servant.
Doubtless my
LORD will own me even here and give me new tokens of His favorable
regard.
But there comes a day when I must stand before the great Father.
What bliss to think that Jesus will confess me then!
He will say, "This
man truly trusted Me and was willing to be reproached for My name's
sake; and therefore I acknowledge him as Mine."
The other day a great
man was made a knight, and the Queen handed him a jeweled garter; but
what of that?
It will be an honor beyond all honors for the LORD Jesus
to confess us in the presence of the divine Majesty in the heavens.
Never let me be ashamed to own my LORD.
Never let me indulge a cowardly
silence or allow a fainthearted compromise.
Shall I blush to own Him who
promises to own me?
~Charles Spurgeon~
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