"You yourselves are a letter of recommendation, written on your hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts." -2 Corinthians 3:1-3
So I read that passage last night for my devotions, and I just thought it was SO COOL! And these are just a few of my thoughts on that. First of all, how cool is it that we, as Christians, are, in a sense, letters of recommendation for Christ?? Well, I think it's pretty darn cool! He has changed us so completely, and we are witnesses of His work in our lives!
And just the language of the passage is a reference to the change in our lives: "...written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of HUMAN HEARTS." Those last two words can be translated "fleshly hearts", and in Ezekiel 11, verse 19, it says "I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh." Our transformation is often described this way: a replacement of a heart of stone with a heart of flesh.
In my reference Bible, Hebrews 8:10 is one of the verses that is listed along with the 2nd Corinthians passage. And it says: "I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts..."
So, what I gathered from these verses is that the transformation in our lives should be SO obvious, it's as if the words of God's Law are written on our fleshly hearts. We should be so demonstrative of God's mercy in our lives, we should be a living, walking letter of recommendation for Christ!
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