“I AM not afraid of owning that I belong to the Lord. Those that serve the devil don’t mind showing whom they serve,” said a man to me the other day on a railway train.
Alas! it is true enough that many of those who serve the devil do not mind others knowing it; they give Christians to understand that they do not want the Bible; that they dislike, or even hate, the name of Jesus.
On all sides we may every day see those who openly serve the devil, and we can tell many a one at a glance.
Can they tell by a glance at us that we serve the Lord?
Alas, how the world and its god influence many of those who are saved! Are we not often afraid of letting others know that we serve the Lord, that we love His Word, the Bible, that we love indeed the name of our Saviour Jesus? Would it not be better if many of us were more like my fellow traveler, in not fearing to own he served the Lord; and more like Paul, the prisoner, on the vessel, with many heathen soldiers and sailors around, speaking of the Lord, “whose,” said he, “I am, and whom I serve.”
May the Lord give all who are His more boldly to own the One who gave Himself for them.
ML 06/28/1925