Hazeyboo

I'm actually finding this question really hard. What does it MEAN? Everything. I can't imagine life without Jesus in it. Most of my life before I made the choice to ask Him to come into my life is a mystery to me. A lot of it I have no memory of at all --- which is good in some ways although even now that I am in my 70s some of it still comes back to bite me! Those who don't know Jesus are living unfulfilled lives because He is the way, the truth and the life.

What does it mean to testify? In my mind it means to tell people about what you believe, to show people through the way you live your life, and to be ready to be put down and argued against for your beliefs. In my safe world it is unlikely that I will ever be called upon to have to make a choice between Jesus and my life. I'm probably not doing very well as far as testifying is concerned if you count numbers, but I'm working hard with one person at the moment and I know that in the past my willingness to talk about my faith has brought others to believing. May it ever be so.

God bless you for pointing out that protecting the addict from his/her addiction is a sin if it involves telling lies (and it usually does).

Thanks to this question and pickledlily's reply (and others) I can see that I have allowed my speaking in tongues to drift off to the point where I use it only in private prayer whereas once it was very public. Ashamed? Not really but perhaps concerned that the new group I'm now with (having moved home) will not understand. Which ties in nicely with not declaring my Christianity in certain situations of which God's word so neatly convicted me yesterday so today I realise that, within the church, I am not showing/using/manifesting the gifts that God has given me. "Use it or lose it" is a popular saying in secular circles - I need to make sure that I'm remembering that.

I think the problem with the contrast between meekness and majesty is, as Graham Kendrick put it in a recent worship song, that meekness does not sit with majesty nor manhood with deity but that these things are "in perfect harmony, the Man who is God". It is this perfect harmony of God that we need to be striving for -- the humility to follow God and the majesty to lead others to Him. So, blessed are the meek, those who are aware of their humanity and its imperfections for God loves them.