A Letter From Christ

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

2 Corinthians 3:1-3

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

When going through old family records we see the crooked teeth, the big knobby knees, the near and far-sightedness.

Some of these are good, some not so good. We don’t always focus on the ones which aren’t so good, we tend to focus on the good ones.

What we also see is that we use our bad ones as an excuse for behaving badly. This may be because it is easier to change our looks than change our character. But imagine how much better off we’d be if we put our energy into character development.

The Spirit develops in us the clear image of Christ.

Our Daily Bread – August 20, 2013