Bold…
Boldness on display at LSU!
What does it mean to be a bold person? I feel it means being someone who has integrity, is willing to stand up for what is right in the face of adversity and doesn’t mind being the only person willing to be that way in the room. Being truly bold is hard, it’s uncomfortable, and lots of times, thankless. The reward is knowing where you stand is on solid ground and nothing can shake you.
Over the course of my adult life, I have seen very few truly bold people. I am not quite sure why there have been so few. I realize it goes counter to our culture a lot of times, but there are a good number of people out there who could care less about the culture. It takes courage to be bold, I see quite a few brave ones. It takes morals to be bold, this is where I think we start to lose it.
Our culture has taken such a turn away from the Christian morals our country was founded upon. I realize we are a multi-cultural and multi-religion nation, and we have been for a long time, but over the last 20-30 years it seems things have gotten crazier and crazier. The last few years have been filled with things we would never have dreamed were possible to happen even 10 years ago.
I believe this is why we don’t see very many truly bold people in the world today. We have lost the ability to have a plurality of people with all those traits. I think we as a country are in the middle of a culture shift back to truth and common sense. Politically things are always going to be unstable despite who’s in charge at the time. As a society I see us getting back to some of our core values and beliefs we once had as a country. I see us recapturing some of our morals, getting back common sense into some of our processes and laws, and even getting back to a smaller less intrusive government possibly that our founding fathers intentionally designed back in 1776.
The question becomes, how to become bold as individuals?
I have been working on it over the last year myself. Personally, I have grown much deeper in my faith, become comfortable with making decisions and following through with them, confident in making changes to plans if the need arises, truly become confident in myself and my abilities, and above all become comfortable being uncomfortable. I think I’m on my way to becoming a bold person, but I think I still have some areas to work on.
Your path to boldness could be very different than mine. We all have our own strengths and weaknesses that must be balanced and tweaked to achieve our desired results.
This week I challenge you to look at yourself and see if you are bold, if you aren’t, consider what changes you can make to get closer to achieving that description. The world needs more bold people it. I’m right there with you trying to be one of them.
2 Timothy 1:7 “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline”