Why don't we speak up?

Why do we keep our thoughts to ourselves? More importantly, why do we keep the truth God has filled us with to ourselves?

I'm thinking about this for a specific reason. Recently I was sitting listening to people who are so involved in their sin that they're actually willing to give everything else up. They make jokes about not graduating, about getting fired, etc, and they say that the extreme 'partying' lifestyle is worth it.

I sat, quietly listening. Listening to people that are regularly presented with God's truth, and I said nothing.

Have I forgotten what it's like to be in a broken state, and not even fully realize it?

' No, it's not worth it. Yes, I do know. I've made mistakes that very few people think I've made. I've done horrible things, and lived to tell the tale. I have not always been the woman of God that I'm blessed to be today. I have been to the darkest places, lived in the worst way. God forgave me, cleansed me, saved me, made me completely different. I know it seems hard to imagine right now, but God can bring new hope and purpose into your lives. He loves you, no matter what you are doing or have done. The Bible says 'God demonstrates His own loves towards us in this: while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us'. Did you catch that? While we were sinners. But, make no mistake, the life you're living now will break you.  Don't despair- there is a hope you cannot imagine. You have to realize that yes, you are wicked. Then you realize the fullness of God's grace.'

That's what I could have said, should have said....

I have a passion for God's truth, I love speaking His name, and I find it impossible to keep it to myself... Usually.

'But if I say 'I will not mention Him or speak anymore in His name', His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in, indeed, I cannot'

-Jeremiah 20:9

That's how we need to be filled. This week, let's pray that God would so fill us that we would be incapable of keeping silent.