I was reading 2 Corinthians 3, and the start of this chapter challenged me.
v1-6 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the Living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant - not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Paul, the great disciple who saw Christ on the Damascus Road, was first mentioned as Saul, who watched the martyrdom of Stephen, giving approval to his death, (Acts 7:60)
He became the greatest missionary example, and his travels and ministry are well documented in the Book of Acts.
Boldly and without hindrance he preached the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts 28:31)
I pray that I too, may be numbered amongst the "letters of Christ" and that through the Word of God others may come to know Him and worship with me!
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