Be courageous

Greetings:
Having Christian courage is key to our daily walk with The Lord. God promises to help us, guide us, protect us and be with us, but still, we fear and lack courage at times.
Many Christians are dying daily at the hands of terrorist and unbelievers throughout the world for their steadfast commitment and love of Christ.
The pain may we experience as a Christian may be mental as in confrontation and controversy.
Courage is indispensable for both spreading and preserving the truth of Christ. It's been that way for decades.
Matthew 24:9 (Amplified Bible), Jesus promised that spreading the gospel would meet with resistance.
It reads: “Then they will hand you over to suffer affliction and tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.”
Therefore, true evangelism and true teaching of The Word takes courage.
Do we tell only the truths that are safe to tell?
Nobody respects a coward. We admire people who are courageous.
Some of us can remember when we were still a kid in school and someone would dare us to do something dangerous. Some of us probably did some of the stupidest, most dangerous life-threatening things we've ever done. Why? So that we wouldn’t be labeled with that dreaded word 'chicken'.
We wanted to come off in the eyes of our peers as courageous, not as a coward.
In our Christian walk, every one of us faces choices every day in which we come out either courageous or a coward. It takes a great deal of courage to face the daily challenges of life without becoming considered weak.
It takes enormous courage to be a Christian when most unbelieving people automatically despise you when you openly reveal that you are a person of faith in Jesus Christ.
The mainstream media in America hates Christians with a passion because of a divide in moral standard and they punish them, belittle them, and try to discredit them at every opportunity.
But, it's doesn't matter what they say, or what they write about us as Christians. God knows our heart and he will get us through it all.
Be courageous in what you think, say and do.
Be blessed.