ODB: An Open Book
January 18, 2011
If someone were to read your life like a book, would they find Jesus in its pages?
READ: Jeremiah 31:31-34
You are an epistle of Christ. —2 Corinthians 3:3
Because I’m a writer, occasionally a friend will say to me, “I want to write a book someday.”
“That’s a worthy goal,” I reply, “and I hope you do write a book. But it’s better to be one than to write one.”
I’m thinking of the apostle Paul’s words: “Clearly you are an epistle of Christ . . . written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart” (2 Cor. 3:3).
In his book The Practice of Piety, Lewis Bayly, chaplain to England’s King James I, said that “one who hopes to effect any good by his writings” will find that he will “instruct very few. . . . The most powerful means, therefore, of promoting what is good is by example. . . . One man in a thousand can write a book to instruct his neighbors. . . . But every man can be a pattern of living excellence to those around him.”
The work that Christ is doing in believers can result in an influence far greater than any book they might write. Through God’s Word, written “on their hearts” (Jer. 31:33), the Lord is displaying His love and goodness for all to see.
As a Christian, you may never write a book, but by living for God you will be one! You will be an open book, an “epistle of Christ” for all to read.
— David H. Roper
Source: Our Daily Bread
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“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:2 (AV)
Thank God for the renew of ma mind today.
Its always good when we’re reminded about the things most fundamental to our christian race…most of us think about how to prove to others that we’re christians rather than just living a life that shows that in itself. Thank you ODB