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A Life Letter

Long before email was a primary way of communicating, I was a letter writer. I wrote letters not only to keep in touch with others, but also as a way of expressing myself, especially with my parents after a fight.

I took those unfinished sentences spewed in anger and scribbled them out on notebook paper, hoping my mom and dad would eventually understand my point and respond with favor. While it was cathartic experience, it didn’t always lead to the outcome I hoped for, because what I felt wasn’t always based on Truth or worthy of heeding. My letters were nothing but a rant from a teenage heart, penned with an ulterior motive of trying to get my own way.

I’m so glad that God doesn’t approach letter writing the way I did. His motives are always pure, so when He says He’s writing a letter on our hearts, His purpose is in line with a Kingdom agenda.

God chooses to use our lives to tell a story about His extravagant grace and abounding love. We are a love letter to a hurting world. He knows they will read us in a way they may never read a Bible. But the question is, will we submit to His writing? Will we yield to His story? Will we live in such a way as to join God in His storytelling, so that our hearts may overflow His message to others?

Trap and Transform

1. What would others say about God, as they read between the lines of your life?

2. If you imagined giving God rights to your story, what would you want Him to do with it?

3. What does it look like to give God everything that is stored up in your heart so that He can turn it into a message that gives Him the glory?