1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? 2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. 3 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.
A friend of mine died the other day. While she will be missed, I’m pretty sure that she was ready. Most would say that she didn’t do much of significance. She spent most of her life in a small town, just miles from where she was born. Most of her life she was a stay at home mom making sure that the daily duties were taken care of. She loved to work in the kitchen, she was a whiz at gardening, and her home was always open to anyone who dropped by. It was during those “drop by” times that God taught us lessons. She would always be ready to talk about her family (her daughter and her family are in Haiti) serving as missionaries. She would love to talk about what was happening in the church. Her concern for her guests and her concern about others needing to know Jesus always seeped out of every conversation.
I wish that you could have known my friend. She never wrote any books and there likely won’t be any books written about her. But when you were around her, she was a letter written from Christ, who wrote upon the tablets of her heart.
Today, take some time to get away. Get away and spend some quality time with the one who has poured out his Spirit upon us.
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