This is what Matthew West tells us about his song “Unashamed.”
“Recently, I did a Bible study on the life of Daniel, and I was so inspired by his response to the decree that anyone who prayed to any God other than the king would be thrown in the lion’s den. Scripture says he went to his upstairs room with the windows open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees and guess what he did. He prayed anyway. That is an unashamed faith, and that’s how I want to live my life. I wrote this song as a reminder that someday we’re going to stand before the Lord, and I know we want to hear Him say ‘well done.’ I want to be like Daniel. I want to stand up for Jesus in this life until He calls me home and I stand before Jesus in eternity. My prayer is that this song will be a rallying cry for the believers to live out these words that Paul wrote in Romans chapter 1: ‘I am not ashamed of the gospel.’”