Fellowship of the Unashamed

I saw this today attached to the bottom of someone's email and it was an encouragment to me. The author is unknown and there are several different versions of it floating around, but this is the one that I saw and thought I'd put it up here on the chance that it might be an encouragement to someone else:

 "I am part of the fellowship of the unashamed! I have the Holy Spirit's power! The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made – I'm a disciple of His! I won't look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still. My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, and my future is secure. I'm finished with low living, sight walking, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed visions, worldly talking, cheap giving, and dwarfed goals. I no longer need preeminence, position, promotions, plaudits ,or popularity. I don't have to be right, first, tops, recognized, praised, regarded ,or rewarded. I now live by faith, depend on His presence, walk by patience, am uplifted by prayer, and labor with power. That's what it means to be a disciple of Jesus!!”                         

(Supposedly written by a national pastor who was later martyred in Zimbabwe, Africa). 

This is not always true of me. I wish it was, but it is not. I am weak. I get discouraged. I often care too much about what others think and I live by sight, instead of faith. I want to be right and recognized. But, God is relentless and gracious. He keeps drawing me and loving me and I don't deserve it – but, He does it anyway. I pray that I will have the same fervency as the man who wrote the above. By God's grace, I will.

 

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