"Unashamed"

"Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed." (Psalms 84:9)
Besides the fact that David was the anointed king in Israel, he knew that God loved him. It matters how sincere your prayers can be, when you are praying to a God that cares; and our God cares! There are a couple of different ways we can look at this verse. On the one hand, David was anointed by God to be the king of Israel, a country and people shielded by the God that called them to be His people. Make no mistake, Israel is God's chosen people; there is nothing that they can do to be unchosen! Don't doubt it for a single moment; not unless you want to doubt the security of your own salvation. That's what Israel is to us, the proof that God does not abandon His anointed ones! Did you know that you were God's anointed? Well, there is some anointing involved with being a saint, I hope you know. Besides that, Jesus is the true Anointed One; and because He is our "shield," that makes us anointed also. If you actually look at this verse in connection with the verse prior, we can see that David uses Jacob to reference God's willingness to hear His people, saying, "give ear, O God of Jacob." This is what I believe that Paul was trying to get across in 2 Corinthians 3 and 4, because if we understand the Good News, and if we know that the Good News is for us, then we can accept the fact that we are God's anointed. More than that, we have the reflection of Christ upon our lives, so that when the Father sees us, He sees us washed and holy. That is what the Good News is all about; that we, sinners and unholy creatures that we are, can be transformed into righteous and holy creatures, by the blood of Jesus Christ! And it is totally not by our doing, it is all God's doing! He created us, He called us, He saved us, He sanctified us, and He will glorify us in heaven. What do you have to be ashamed of; you're a saint...
"That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and don't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don't look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever." (2 Corinthians 4:16-18) NLT