T-shirt Day
T-SHIRT DAY
Read Matthew 26:69-75.
Karin and her family spent a week at Mountain View Bible Camp, and Karin had a wonderful time. “Can I please buy a camp T-shirt?” she begged one day. “Everyone else has one.” Mom agreed, and Karin promptly put the shirt on. On the front was a picture of the chapel with the words “Proclaiming His Word to the World.” On the back it said, “Mountain View Bible Camp.” Karin wore the shirt almost every day that week, proud to be a part of the group.
Back home, Karin stuffed the shirt in a drawer and forgot about it. Mom didn’t forget, though. From time to time she suggested that Karin wear it, but Karin always refused. “I like it,” she insisted, “but it just wouldn’t look right.”
One Friday was declared T-shirt Day at school. Again Karin begged for a new shirt. “Not this time,” Mom replied. “Wear your camp shirt. It’s almost new.”
“I can’t wear that,” protested Karin. “It wouldn’t look right at school. Everyone else will wear shirts with cool sayings on them or they’ll be from exciting vacation places like Yellowstone.”
“Wasn’t camp exciting?” asked Mom. “You loved your shirt before.”
Karin bit her lip. “It was different at camp,” she said.
“Yes, it was,” Mom said. “It was comfortable to be identified as a Christian then, because others shared your faith.”
Karin bristled. “Are you saying I’m ashamed to let others see that I’m a Christian?”
“Are you?” asked Mom softly.
Karin thought about it. “I guess maybe I have been,” she confessed.
HOW ABOUT YOU?
Do your friends and teachers know you’re a Christian? Do you pray before you eat, witness when you can, and speak up for your faith in the classroom? Don’t be ashamed of Jesus. Others need to know Him too.
TO MEMORIZE:
Never be ashamed to tell others about our Lord.
2 Timothy 1:8
DON’T BE ASHAMED OF JESUS.
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