If your life was a letter to others, how would it read? God’s Word tells you, as a believer in His New Covenant, that your unveiled face reveals the power of the Holy Spirit. God’s not ashamed of you. He gave you everything, so that your life could be an invitation to His grace. Your crazy life, with all its faults and renewals, is enough to be a ministry.

I believe God wants to remind you, before you think you have to gather referrals, build a following, or accumulate degrees, that if you believe He sacrificed his only Son to save you, you have a hope worth sharing. It’s a light you own, that keeps lifting you back up again. And God knows it shines brightly enough to light the way for others. Just listen to His 2 Corinthians 3:3 love letter to you:

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.

I like to think that although Paul was writing this letter to his Corinthian church, God intends it for you today. When He speaks of the “result of our ministry” it is a sweet and subtle reminder that God is with you in your Christian walk, always. This life is “ours” together with Him.

This section of scripture goes on to suggest that there is another “letter” that can be a barrier to your own letter. That is to say if we are hard-hearted and short-sighted, following only man-made rulings “to the letter”, we may miss being the love letter that is written every moment by the Spirit within us:

Such confidence as this is ours 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. (2 Corinthians 3:4-6)

So, dear friends, be yourselves in Him. Be willing to share with someone that your imperfect life is lit from inside by sentiments God wants others to hear from regular you. You don’t have to be a fix-it wizard, or have the perfect answer. Just someone who comes alongside in the Spirit of Christ. Unafraid of others’ failings, willing to share the bearing of burdens. When you hug someone or take time to listen, it has a similar effect on their heart as having taken the time to write them a personal letter.

You are God’s letter. What an honor to live in that truth.

Writing it out with you,
Lia