A Cause for Boldness

I must continually hold on to the fact 

• that professing or confessing is a repeating of and an answer 
• to what God has said. 

Only in this way can I confess that I belong to Jesus Christ. 

• This confession can never be a conclusion based on 
• what I feel I have experienced in belonging to Christ. 

For experience is always the fruit of faith and not its foundation; 

• thus the experience of union with Christ 
• is a result of the faith of that belonging. 
• Such faith needs to find its foundation in something else. 

With the confession that I belong to Jesus Christ, 

• I am subservient to God’s Word. 
• God has said in His Word that I belong to Him 
• and sealed this to me through baptism 
• In my faithful profession I merely echo the Word of God. 

My confession that I belong to Jesus Christ,

• finds therefore its basis exclusively in God’s Word. 
• This profession is also a deed of obedience. 
• I may profess this because I must profess it. 
• My boldness in this continually finds its origin and cause 
• in the demand of the Word of God.

Adapted Excerpt from

The True Faith

S.G. DeGraaf