February 25, 2023 A LIVING LETTER
2 Corinthians 3:2-3 “You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.”
Hebrews 13:15-16 “Through Him, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name. And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.”
1 Timothy 6:12 “Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”
The life we are currently living is a letter being written; and our letter will be read by all. This letter is not written on occasion, but is continually being written 24/7. At one point in our life, we were separated from Christ; but now, if we have trusted Him as our Savior, we have been joined to Him and made a new creation. Because we have been joined to Him and have received the Holy Spirit and are now new creations with new natures, our life is far different from what it used to be. (It is true that a believer can revert back to living according to his old nature and live according to the flesh, thereby grieving the Holy Spirit-that is a choice one can make.) Our life is expressed through our action, by our responses, by our attitudes, by the words we speak, by our thoughts, by our priorities, by what motivates us, and by the spirit we project. It’s a great and accurate analogy to see the life we live as being a letter read by all. It is awesome to think that we are a ‘letter of Christ;’ our letter can be all about the greatness of our God and how He has forgiven us and made us new; our life can reflect the attributes of Christ. We are called to fight the good fight of faith; let us not neglect our calling, but be diligent in daily turning our hearts to the Lord and seeking to live in such a way that is pleasing to Him. We are now in Him, and He is in us; He is now our life. Let all we do, let the life we live flow out of who we are in Him. Our letter is being read today, and when we pass from this life, others will still be reading the letter we wrote with our life-the letter we left behind.
Ephesians 2:10 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
Blessings,
Buddy
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