You Should Know That You

Are 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.

Such confidence we have through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness! For what was glorious has no glory now in comparison with the surpassing glory. And if what was transitory came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which lasts!

2 Corinthians 3:1-11

What is your Christian message? Some of us are called to write books that can be used by God in the conversion of many. Some are called to tell others about Christ through the things they do, but the reality is that we are all letters of Christ.

Paul does not mean that we are pieces of paper upon which God’s message has been written. But as “living” letters we can illustrate how Jesus Christ makes a difference in how we treat others and strive to live with integrity.

We are all called to bring glory to the One who loves us and has redeemed us.

We are Christ’s “letters of recommendation” to all who read our lives.

Our Daily Bread – November 23, 2013