You are a letter from Christ written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. We are a message from Christ to this world. Christ has chosen his people as the method to heal and speak and work until His return. We are the best method to heal this world. We do not strive to write our deeds and words on paper, but on human hearts. Therefore, we shouldn’t judge our success by how many people we speak to, or how much we give, or how far we travel to spread the gospel, but instead, how many hearts we have writing Christ on. Each and every one of our lives is pen and paper to tell the story of Christ. We are a letter from Christ himself, so what we say and do should reflect our Lord. The messenger should reflect the message and the one who sends it.
Whose life are you speaking the life of Christ into? Whose heart are you writing on? Because too often as Christians, we get so complacent with our friends and our community that we forget that we are the letter! Why would a letter get sent to someone who has already heard the message? I am not discounting the value of serving and spending time with your friends; in fact, the Christian brothers and sisters in our community are a priority. But I have noticed in my own life and in the lives of my friends that we are spending all our time with each other that the message of Christ is not reaching its destination. We should be writing on the hearts around us with the spirit: praying for those in our lives, serving without the need for recognition, speaking and being the message of Christ.

We have such confidence in Christ! Why are we remaining amongst our confidants? Go! We are not competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. He has made us competent as carriers of the Holy Spirit, ambassadors for the new kingdom. The law of the land kills, but the Spirit gives life. We are the light. We are the salt. We are the lifegivers!

If the ministry of following the law had glory with it, will not eh ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness! Therefore, since we have such confidence in Christ, we are meant to be very bold. We are meant to be a bold faced letter to the world pronouncing the good news of the King. We are not making bad people good; we are making dead people alive by the spirit! Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom! We, who are in his glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. We don’t need to sit around amongst each other; we need to go out!

So are you a good letter of Christ? Do people read your life and proclaim praise to the King? Are you writing on the hearts of men and women or are you sitting around and reaping the benefits of Christian community? I challenge us because there is no time to simply enjoy the friendship of only those in Christ. We will have an eternity to do that. Right now we must use our short lives to bring life as the Letter of Christ, writing on hearts with the Spirit. Maybe it is time to change your font, italicize a few things in your life and send yourself into a lost and broken world.