Living Letters

“You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, 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 3:2-3

I’m in the process of writing a query letter to a publisher and I find that when I follow suggested guidelines the letter doesn’t sound like me at all. Oh, it might say the right things but so far I’m not satisfied with the finished product because it is just not an adequate representation of who I am nor does the letter sound like anything I would ever write so I’ll keep working on it. Our lives are also a letter written by our Heavenly Father on our very hearts as He desires to manifest Himself in us. That living letter is a representation of His character, Who He is, and who we are in Him. I pray that the letter He has written on my heart will always be the kind of letter that pleases Him. And unlike my query letter, I want others to see a good representation of Him, not me when it is read by others.

With the Holy Spirit living within us we’re living letters that others read everyday; written not with ink, or etched on a stone tablet but love letters written on our very human hearts and read by everyone we come in contact with.