2 Corinthians 3:1-3
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 everybody.
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.
Reflection
Paul is saying in this passage that the Corinthians are a “living letter.” Just like when someone writes us a letter, we can read it to understand what they are saying. With the Corinthians being a “living letter” people can observe their lives and know what they believe. In our day, we put ourselves on display in any number of ways: in our daily work lives, in our “play” lives, at school, at church and in our neighborhoods. Even more, we put ourselves on display when we “post” on Facebook, “tweet” on Twitter, when we “snapchat” or post pictures on Instagram.
What are people seeing in you as you go about your life each day in all of the different places, including cyber places?
So here are the questions to close the week: Are you being salt and light, in other words “holy” (different than the culture, set apart for God’s work)? Are you being “available” (sent to those that are not saved because no one has told them about God’s saving grace)? Who and where is God sending you to be “holy available” for God’s glory?
