he evangelist Billy Sunday used to tell a story of a professing Christian who got a job in a lumber camp that had the reputation of being very ungodly. A friend, hearing that the man had been hired, said to him, "If those lumberjacks ever find out you're a Christian, you're going to be in for a hard time!" The man responded, "I know it, but I really need the job!" The next morning he left for the camp. After a year had passed, he decided to come home for a visit. While in town, he met the friend who had predicted the ridicule and persecution he would recieve from the other lumberjacks. "Well, how did it go?" asked the friend. "Did they give you a hard time for being a Christian?" "Oh, no, not at all," the man replied. "They didn't give me a bit of trouble - in fact they never even found out!"           Oh, that we would not be secret Christians, living lives that never indicate we are born again by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. Let us never conduct our lives in such a way that the world never finds out that we have been bought by the grace of God. Charles Spurgeon once said that some Christians need to wear a badge identifying them as such because that is the only way anyone would know that they believe in Christ Jesus. What about you? What does your life say about your relationship with the Son of God? Are you a secret Christian?

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