Ready Answer

Game show contestants have mere seconds to give an answer. It’s exactly why I’d never make a good contestant!  How ready are you with an answer about your faith?  For sure, there are spiritual matters that require study and prayer but there are others to which we shouldn’t hem-haw or stutter.  Brought before the king to answer for their refusal to to bow before his golden image, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego answered: “… let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.” (Daniel 3:18).  What we know of these three Hebrew men, I just don’t see them going into executive session or administrative conference to determine a resposne!  As seriously devoted followers of Jesus Christ, we are to “be prepared in season and out of season” (2 Timothy 4:2).  Very simply, be ready at any time to give an answer about Him Whom we love.  Our loyalty to Christ should never be a matter for consideration.  Let us always have a ready answer and let that ready answer be one of genuine devotion to Christ alone.