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YE ARE THE EPISTLE OF CHRIST (III)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
2 Corinthians 3:1-5
2 Corinthians 3:3
“Ye are manifestly declared
to be the epistle of Christ.”
YE ARE THE EPISTLE OF CHRIST (III)
It is a great privilege and blessing to be the epistle of Christ, reflecting God’s Word and Christ’s life so that others may read Christ’s epistle through our lives:
It is a holy epistle: If we do not live a holy and godly life separated from sin, self, worldliness and wrong doctrines, we fail to be the epistle of Christ. The woman of Shunem said to her husband about the prophet Elisha, “I perceive that this is an holy man of God” (2 Kings 4:9) while he had not preached a word to her.
It is a living epistle: It is not written with ink in “tables of stone” (2 Cor 3:3; cf. Exod 24:12; 31:18), but with the Spirit of the living God in our new heart in Christ. Are our lives with all our activities a living epistle of Christ that others can read?
It is the gospel of Christ: Can sinners read the good news of Christ’s death for their sins and His resurrection for their justification through our lives and words (Phil 1:27)? It is a loving epistle: Do others see God’s holy love in our lives? Love that “rejoiceth not in iniquities, but rejoiceth in the truth” (1 Cor 13:6).
It is a comforting epistle: Can others get some encouragement and comfort from us in their troubles and trials of life (2 Cor 1:3)?
It is a warning epistle: Can sinners and backsliders get some of God’s warnings through our lives (2 Thess 2:10-12)?
It is a hopeful epistle: Can others see we are not building our home on this earth but in heaven and looking forward to the coming of Christ (1 Tim 1:1; Titus 2:13)?
THOUGHT: How wonderful it is to be Christ’s epistle!
PRAYER: Father, make me Thy epistle that others may read.