Closets...

I've decided to come out of the closet. And it's funny because I watched a video last year that had the same title but the message didn't really strike me until recently...when I was making a very small decision in my life. Now...hold on before your imagination runs wild. I'm talking about the closet that you might be automatically thinking about. I'm talking about Closet-Christians...get it? no? let me explain.


I'm talking about the people who walk around terrified that their not-necessarily-born-again friends and colleagues would judge them if they found out that they were saved. I'm talking about the people who euphemise going to church on Sunday as 'being busy during the weekend'. I'm talking about the people who skip praying before lunch at school to avoid potentially awkward questions and possibly stares. And I promise I'm not judging you because I know what it feels like to be in your shoes...sometimes I still walk in them. It's almost as if we're ashamed. But let's think about this logically, shall we?


Technically people are ashamed of doing things which are considered wrong...or even illegal like: shoplifting, binge drinking, watching porn etc. So do you think that it's wrong to be a Christian?
If yes...then this blog-post probably doesn't apply to you. you might enjoy reading one of my funnier and chilled-out posts.

If your answer is no, then allow me to suggest you should feel no shame for what you are. When people graduate or get that job they've always wanted they tend to shout the news from the roof-tops don't they?
Allow me to suggest that if you are a Christian, then what People think of you is the least of your worries. what can they do? Judge you? discriminate against you? laugh at you? But only for a while because you will eventually move on with your life: get a new school or job or neighbourhood.
I'd be more worried about what God can do to you, which is more eternal. Because take a look at :

Matthew 10:28 NKJV
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

and.....

Matthew 10:32-33 NKJV
“Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.

You should probably read the whole chapter so that you fully understand the context, but in a nutshell this is Jesus speaking to the disciples as He gave them the great commission. This is part of the advice He gave them on what to do if they faced oppoion. So yeah, read the whole chapter.


So I'm coming out of the closet. Besides it's so much easier to be yourself instead of walking on egg-shells to look like something you're not.
Ciao...