“If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9 NIV
Have you ever tried to keep a secret? I have and it feels like the greater the secret, the more exciting it is, the harder it is to keep. I want to tell someone, maybe even shout it out loud. That is what I think of when I read this verse. Once we believe that Jesus died for our sins and that God raised Him from the dead because He loves us, we tend to not want to keep it inside. We want to tell others this exciting news that Jesus is Lord, that He is our Lord. By sharing this wonderful news with others we are also showing Jesus that we are not afraid to let others know that Jesus is part of our lives, that the Holy Spirit lives in our hearts.
I believe this is important because Jesus wasn’t afraid to let everyone know who He was there to save. He told anyone who would listen that He was there to save all of mankind, the world, if they would only believe in the Son. If we are afraid to let others know that Jesus is our Lord and Savior, then maybe we are not really committed to following Jesus.
Please remember that when we decide to follow Jesus, we are given this wonderful gift. A gift that changes so many things in our lives, how we think, how we behave, how we spend our time, how we interact with others, where we will spend eternity. A gift that we should not want to hide from anyone but share with everyone, so others who are not followers of Jesus can hear about Him and decide for themselves if they want to accept this amazing gift of grace or not.
As you go about your day today, please ask yourself if you have said out loud that Jesus is your Lord? Do you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead? If you believe and haven’t said it out loud, what is stopping you?