God Hears HerSample

Writing Letters

My mother and her sisters engage in what is becoming a lost art form—writing letters. Each week they pen personal words to each other with such consistency that one of their mail carriers worries when he doesn’t have something to deliver!

As I reflect on this weekly exercise of the women in my family, it helps me appreciate even more the apostle Paul’s words that those who follow Jesus are “a letter from Christ,” who were “written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God” (2 Corinthians 3:3). Paul encouraged the church in Corinth to keep on following the true and living God as he had previously taught. In doing so, he memorably described the believers as Christ’s letter. Their transformed lives were a more powerful witness to the Spirit’s work than any written letter could be.

God’s Spirit in us writes a story of grace and redemption! It is our lives that are the best witness to the truth of the gospel, for they speak volumes through our compassion, service, gratitude, and joy. What message might you send today? —Amy