A Letter To The World
You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone … written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God.
2 Corinthians 3:2-3
In this passage, Paul likened the Christian to a literary production (“letter”) of Christ—a letter others can read.
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It’s as if he were asking the reader: “Would the message of your life demonstrate the personality and character of Christ … or something else?”
H. A. Ironside itemizes what some of those markings of Christ in your life might be.
WALK WITH H. A. IRONSIDE
“Do people see something of the patience of Christ, the meekness of Christ, the purity of Christ, the love of Christ, and the tender compassion of Christ in me?
“As I mingle with others in my daily employment, those with whom I have the most to do should see a difference.
“Do they say, ‘Well, so-and-so may be a Christian; if he is, I do not think much of Christianity’?
“Or are we so living Christ that others looking upon us say, ‘Well, if that is Christianity, I wish I knew something of it in my own life’?
“Long for someone to say to you: ‘I cannot help but believe in the reality of the message you preach because of the effect it has on the people I have seen who believe it.’
“This is what Paul means when he says that we are the letter of Christ.”
WALK CLOSER TO GOD
When you are truly a letter of Christ, no one will be able to deny the fact.
The markings will be there: “love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control”—in essence, all the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23).
Your life can be an open book for all to see the life of Christ in you—a love letter to a lost world.
The “letter” of one life is worth a thousand words. But only you can determine the content of that letter and what it will reveal to those who take the time to read it.
