I'd Like to Bury My Testimony...

Isn't it too cute when little kids say this?  Steve and I laughed as it was said yesterday.  Sweet kids bearing their testimony of God the Father and Jesus Christ.

But, seriously, how many of us "bury" our testimonies.  Two scriptures came to my mind after these children shared their testimonies.

#1: 2 Tim. 1:7–8
"Be not thou...ashamed of the testimony of our Lord”

#2: 2 Ne. 33:4–6
“I glory in plainness; I glory in truth; I glory in my Jesus, for he hath redeemed my soul from hell”

I find myself burying my testimony in fear, complicating my life and not finding time for the plainness of studying the scripture and teaching Thomas the gospel, being surrounded by Satan's lies in the media and even the news.  If I truly "glory in my Jesus" I should not be ashamed of my testimony.

There are many ways to share your testimony.  It doesn't always mean standing up in front of a group of people and publicly proclaiming what you know to be truth.  It can be in the way you live your life as an "example of the believers".  You can use social media to let others know of your beliefs.  But, most important, no matter how you share your testimony, you should do it unashamed and proud.  Glory in Jesus.  Glory in His love for you.

Next time you hear a kid express their desire to "bury" their testimony, ask yourself if you're doing the same thing.

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The Jungle Book The Second Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling
Persuasion	Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
Emma	Jane Austen
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	L. Frank Baum
Lorna Doone	R. D. Blackmore
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë
The Adventures of Pinnochio	Carlo Collodi
The Secret Garden	Frances Hodgson Burnett
The House of the Seven Gables	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass	Lewis Carroll
Don Quixote of La Mancha	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Man Who Was Thursday	G.K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill	G.K. Chesterton
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists	Robert Tressel
The Moonstone	Wilkie Collins
The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim	Joseph Conrad
The Deerslayer	James Fenimore Cooper
A Room With A View	EM Forster
The Red Badge of Courage	Stephen Crane
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders	Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe
Bleak House	Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens
The Jungle	Upton Sinclair
Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Ghost Pirate	William Hope Hodgson
Once On A Time	AA Milne
The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas
The Man in the Iron Mask	Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas
Silas Marner	George Eliot
The Diary of a Nobody	George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
Allan Quatermain	Henry Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines	Henry Rider Haggard
Far from the Madding Crowd	Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles	Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys	Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys	Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Four Million	O. Henry
The Odyssey	Homer
The Prisoner of Zenda	Anthony Hope
Household Tales	Brothers Grimm
Les Misérables	Victor Hugo
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon	Washington Irving
The Aspern Papers	Henry James
The Turn of the Screw	Henry James
The Scarlet Pimpernel	Baroness Orczy
This Side of Paradise	F Scott Fitzgerald
The Man Who Would Be King	Rudyard Kipling
The Phantom of the Opera	Gaston Leroux
The Call of the Wild	Jack London
White Fang	Jack London
The Princess and Curdie	George MacDonald
The Princess and the Goblin	George MacDonald
The Prince	Niccolò Machiavelli
Moby Dick	Herman Melville
Utopia	Thomas More
Rights of Man	Thomas Paine
Ivanhoe	Sir Walter Scott
Waverley	Sir Walter Scott
Black Beauty	Anna Sewell
Othello	William Shakespeare
King Lear	William Shakespeare
MacBeth	William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream	William Shakespeare
Around the World in 80 Days	Jules Verne
As You Like It	William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew	William Shakespeare
The Tempest	William Shakespeare
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula	Bram Stoker
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift
Vanity Fair	William Makepeace Thackeray
Walden	Henry David Thoreau
Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy
Barchester Towers	Anthony Trollope
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	Mark Twain
Journey to the Center of the Earth	Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Jules Verne
The Time Machine	H.G. Wells
The Age of Innocence	Edith Wharton
The Importance of Being Earnest	Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde