"But if any man love God, the same is known of him."

                            -I Corinthians 8:3 

A lot of times in our reading of the Word of God,  there are certain verses that we have to really study out in order to fully understand. We've got to drag out our commentaries, dictionaries, concordances, study Bibles and everything else, and even then sometimes it takes a great deal of prayer before we actually "see the light." But every once in a while, we come across a verse that is so plain and so clear, that it usually doesn't take more than a simple reading to understand it. This is one of those verses.

Paul comes straight to the point when he says, in my own paraphrase, "If you truly love the Lord, people will be able to tell." In fact, I would go as far as to say that if people can't tell we Love the Lord, then chances are we don't really love Him at all.

"Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven."

                            -Matthew 10:32-33

According to Jesus, we are either confessing Him or denying Him. It's one or the other. Silence isn't listed as an option, because in reality, silence is the same thing as denying Him. If we aren't confessing Christ before the world, then we are denying Him before the world.

It's time for the church to stop trying find a middle ground between serving God and serving ourselves, because there isn't one.

"I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth."

                                -Revelation 3:15-16