God's Word Set Free.

 ⁸ Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel, ⁹ for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God’s word is not chained. ¹⁰ Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

This is the page that I opened my Bible to today.  And really verses 8 and 10 are only on here to give context to verse 2 Timothy 2:9

"God's word is not chained"

Wow. Powerful.  So I started thinking...Do I ever chain God's word down? 

Answer: YES.

Every time I speak to someone and a scripture pops in my head (and I'm sure it is there for a reason) and I don't speak it I chain down God's word.  Sometimes I stay silent when I shouldn't.  I will even go as far as to admit that I have had opportunities to have real-life conversations about faith with non-believers and I have walked away.  Why?  Because I was uncomfortable and I was afraid of making them uncomfortable.  When I first started walking my walk of faith there were words that just made me unsure of myself.  Words like "God Bless" "I felt the Holy Spirit" and "God is telling me (fill in blank here)"  Phrases that people who have the fire of the Holy Spirit use regularly made me so uncomfortable that I would avoid conversations in order to not make myself or anyone else uncomfortable.  

So my response to the person I used to be back when is...get over it.  God's word is NOT chained.  And I refuse to let it be chained in my life now.  

Why are we all so afraid of making people uncomfortable with the words Jesus Christ? Honestly within the Church when something makes you uncomfortable don't we call that conviction? And isn't it a positive thing?   Or is it not that we are afraid of making others comfortable, but rather we are uncomfortable?  What does it take for YOU to be so excited about Christ that you can't help but set the Gospel free?  Are you letting fears and uncomfortableness chain down God's word in your life?  

Personal challenge for myself:  Every time Scripture pops in my head, no matter who I am around, I am going to speak it out loud, and where that conversation goes from there is up to God, but I am following His lead.

God Bless.