God, thank you for the countless examples of men and women throughout history who suffered for the sake of proclaiming what is true. Help me to stand firm in proclaiming your love, even when I am scared. Amen.

He was oppressed and tormented, but didn’t open his mouth. Like a lamb being brought to slaughter, like a ewe silent before her shearers, he didn’t open his mouth.

Due to an unjust ruling he was taken away, and his fate—who will think about it? He was eliminated from the land of the living, struck dead because of my people’s rebellion. His grave was among the wicked, his tomb with evildoers, though he had done no violence, and had spoken nothing false.

Isaiah 53:7-9