"Not me!" you may be saying.
And you may be right.
But one can think he's obeying
what God expects, and not be.
The watering down of
Jesus and his words
can be unbelievably subtle.
Christians there are in name only,
(one hesitates to give them that much)
who without realizing it,
have moved our great Master
off the cover of their lives
to the inside pages.
You and I then need to stay sharp.
But hear Jesus' own words on this cosmically-important subject:
"Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."
Mark 8:38