Speak Up!

So this semester at BYU I'm taking a New Testament class.  I love the New Testament.  It was my favorite year in seminary and besides the Book of Mormon; it's probably the book of scripture I know best.  

This is just to give context to this post.  Earlier today, I was reading in Acts.  Peter and John were in Jerusalem and some of the Sanhedrin were threatening them because they were preaching about Christ.  When they did, the response of these two apostles was this.

          4:20

               For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

How cool is this?  There was so much inside these two men they literally could not hold it in, they had to share it.  If you continue to read, they are eventually ordered by an angel to preach more, and not to hold back.  Sometimes I wish I could get an order like this.  I like (or at least I’d like to think) to talk about the gospel with people.  I’ve been making it an important part of my life, and I feel that the more important something is to a person, the more they think of it and the more likely they are to talk about it. 

         

This isn’t really what I wanted to focus on though.  I feel like all those who have been so blessed to know the truth about the Plan of Salvation should be full of joy.  I know I have been in recent weeks.  We should be bursting with the light of it.  We shouldn’t keep this to ourselves.  We should want to share it with everyone, with the voice of an angel, as Alma mentions in Alma 29:1-2.

I often feel self-conscious when I talk about the gospel in my daily life.  It makes me feel odd.  I know I shouldn’t, my parents do it all the time, those I know who have amazing testimonies just can’t help it sometimes.  I want to be one of those people.  Any testimony is a beautiful thing and deserves to be share.  If that is something that you want to, I encourage you to do the same.  Don’t hold it in, the word is for everyone.