But what does it say? “The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved. The scripture says, “No one who believes in him will be put to shame.” (Romans 10:8-11, NRSV)
We believe all kinds of things in our hearts that we will never speak in the daylight…
Why is that?
Some of the things we believe would be seen as crazy by some of our friends. How do you think the early adapters to The Way felt… They were following this new thing and everyone around them would think they are crazy…
When you really believe something in your heart though you have to talk about it. Confess it!
We have to give a word and life to the things we hold inside.
That is why we believe with our hearts and we are justified. We have the knowledge in us that brings us to that relationship, and then we speak it into existence…
We say the words that Jesus Christ is Lord! And so we are brought fully into that relationship. Not because of anything we have done, but because of everything God has done for us. And because of what He has done we will not be put to shame!
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