Living Boldly

Bold. What does bold mean? To be courageous and confident, to be different, even if you're the only one. To be brave. Does it mean to be fearless? No. Bold is to do it despite your fears and to be confident in your difference. How can we be bold? How do we live boldly? To live boldly is to do something no matter your fear of it. To be bold it doesn't mean to live dangerously, but confidently. So, how can we be bold spiritually? To share the Gospel despite our fear of man, to go out of our comfort zone to talk to someone, help someone. Our comfort zone can be a dangerous place because it can hold us back from all we could be and all that we could do. To leave and dismiss our comfort zone is to be bold and confident that Christ will be our comfort when we've left what might be comfortable to us. Being bold spiritually is to be different and to be confident in being different. We stand out from the world, our desire should be to be different, and with that as our desire we are already being bold. I think this world has made bold a word that is scary to some. They have made bold to be fearless, daring, and dangerous, but that's not what it is. Another way to be bold, especially in this world, is to be yourself, no faking it. With all social media most people picture their lives as perfect and flawless. I'm not saying to share with the world your struggles or your mistakes at all, there needs to be some boundary with what you post. But, while you're scrolling through Instagram, or facebook, what do you see? Perfect lives, perfect bodies, perfect smiles, but you don't see the tears behind the smiles, the struggle within the life, the disappointment in their body. In this world we are told we need to be perfect and if perfection isn't reached we are inadequate, a disappointment, and have no more value. So to be bold, is to be you, not to be fake, or to act out this life you portray as perfect. I challenge you to be bold, live boldly, especially spiritually.