A Letter From Christ

 

In this day and age we don't get too many letters in the mail.  It's the age of short text messages via WhatsApp, WeChat and so on.  They're quick and easy to tap out without much effort or stress.  It's a red-letter day when we get an actual letter or postcard in the snail mail letter box.  Eagerly, we slit open the envelop, pull out the letter and read what a friend has taken the time to sit down and write.

Has a 'letter from Christ" ever come your way?  Second Corinthians 3:3 reads,

"You show you are a letter from Christ ... written ... with the Spirit of the living God."

When I read this verse this morning, I felt,"'Ugh-oh', have I been a good letter to read?"  What words and actions have I displayed to others in representing Christ who is my Savior?   Since I'm a follower of Jesus Christ, how much do I allow the Holy Spirit of the living God to write "on the tablets of [my] human [heart]"?

When people see me coming are they getting  a wonderful letter from Christ or not?  Is the fruit of the Spirit ripe and fragrant?  These are good questions with which I need to examine myself without making excuses for certain behaviors exhibited that wouldn't have been written by Christ.

One of the most well known letters from Christ to the world was Billy Graham.  He was such a man of God with integrity.  So many billions of people worldwide heard his gospel messages and trusted in Christ because 'as a letter from Christ,' Billy Graham had very clear and precise writing.  He was exemplary.

The apostle Paul in his letter to the Corninthians said he didn't really need the written with paper and ink letter but that they themselves were a letter from Christ ... written ... with the Spirit of the living God".  I want to be such a letter too.  I make it my prayer.  May it be each and every child of God's prayer too.  We can open our human hearts and allow the Holy Spirit to begin writing.  Pray that what other people 'read' will be a clear, precise and heartwarming, transforming letter from Christ.

                                              ~ ERC  January 2025 ~

Based on 2 Corinthians 3:3 NIV.

Sing, In Christ Alone, along with Keith and Kristyn Getty.