Memorial Day <3

Happy Memorial Day! A day full of remembering…those who have passed from our families, those who have served faithfully.

On this day we say, summer has now begun…

We have cookouts perhaps? Boating? An extra day to rest or head back from a get-away…and…

no mail.

Which means, no junk to sort through and shred….no unwanted return address labels from some fundraiser, no bills….but also no hope that perhaps someone has sent an actual, handwritten note.

Remember those?

There is something about an envelope addressed by a real person, containing some of their thoughts captured in pen on paper that just lifts the spirits. I don’t care how tech savvy you are; there is nothing like a handwritten note in the mailbox to brighten the day!

My memory verse for the last half of May has talked about letters…

2 Corinthians 3:3 NLT

Clearly….you are a letter…written by Christ…showing the result of our ministry among you….a “letter” written not with pen and ink….but with the Spirit of the living God….carved not on tablets of stone….but on the human heart….

Imagine that.

Ponder that.

As we minister, as others have ministered to us…

Christ HIMSELF…

has picked up the Holy Spirit as if He is a pen filled with ink…

and has carved on our frail, faulty, battered human hearts….

until we are…

an engraved letter…

a note of communication…

written by Him…

signed by Him.

Clearly….clearly….

obviously…

to the whole world….

a personal letter from Christ.

Clearly….you….YOUR….HEART…..IS….a letter…

YOUR LIFE…is evidence of the ministry and writing and communication of CHRIST…to the world.

Oh, there will be mail today and every day…

personal love letters of Christ, written on human hearts.

As long as He is allowed to work through the ministries of others in our lives… and through our ministry to others.

This is….

good news <3