A lot of us welcomed Jesus into our hearts at a young age and were even baptized or confirmed before high school and were filled to the brim with faith. Thinking back to how we were feeling in the days following we mostly wanted to shout out a proclamation of our faith to the world.
Once we started in high school we learned fast that the world typically doesn’t look kindly on this enthusiastic faith, even at times where we did talk about our faith leading to our peers picking or teasing us about it.
Once we grow up we lose peers teasing us about faith, but the scars of apprehension are still left with us, pressures in college, at work, in the media, all lead us to feel less willing to share our faith and struggle more with living our faith out in life. It takes courage to do this, but we know that the best things in life don’t come easy.
Courage can be defined as “strength of mind to carry on spite of danger or difficulty,” but we all feel that it’s more than that. Courage is standing up for your beliefs, even if it leads to ridicule. It’s taking the risk of your own reputation to help someone who might need a friend. Courageous people aren’t afraid of going against the grain if they are standing up for something they believe in. How do you reflect a deeper meaning of courage in your life?
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