Not Ashamed?

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.  Rom 1:16

I cannot speak these words in truth of myself.  I love my Savior.  Sitting here in the quiet of the morning I am hungry to share His truth.  But, when I am face to face with this dying world, everything seems to drain from me.  It’s not that I am shy or don’t have the words.  It is that I am ashamed.

That has to go.  Today.  This moment.  Not even necessarily because of the decaying world, but because as long as I am ashamed my statements of love for the Lord are essentially nullified.  If I love Him, I will obey His commandments.  If I love him, I will not be ashamed.