ODB Message
“Writing Letters”
By
Amy Boucher Pye
You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known
and read by everyone. 2 Corinthians 3:2
My mother and her sisters
engage in what is increasingly becoming a lost art form—writing letters. Each
week they pen personal words to each other with such consistency that one of
their mail-carriers worries when he doesn’t have something to deliver! Their
letters brim with the stuff of life, the joys and heartaches along with the daily
happenings of friends and family.
I love to reflect on this
weekly exercise of the women in my family. It helps me appreciate even more the
apostle Paul’s words that those who follow Jesus are “a letter from Christ,”
who were “written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God” (2 Cor.
3:3). In response to false teachers who wanted to discredit his message (see 2
Cor. 11), Paul encouraged the church in Corinth to keep on following the true
and living God as he had previously taught. In doing so, he memorably described
the believers as Christ’s letter, with their transformed lives a more powerful
witness to the Spirit working through Paul’s ministry than any written letter
could be.
How wonderful that God’s
Spirit in us writes a story of grace and redemption! For as meaningful as
written words can be, it is our lives that are the best witness to the truth of
the gospel, for they speak volumes through our compassion, service, gratitude,
and joy. Through our words and actions, the Lord spreads His life-giving love.
What message might you send today?
PRAY- Lord God, write the
story of my life so that I might reflect Your love and goodness to those I
encounter today.
We are Christ’s letters.
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