Would you
believe that I am almost done with my yearlong journey through the Bible
with my friend from church? We just started on a random Monday in September, so
don’t worry…you’re not missing any big holidays coming up. But we have less
than a month left until we’ll have read all the way through the entire Bible. We
are deep into the New Testament and having some great conversations about Paul’s
letters.
Yesterday we read in 2
Corinthians, and the first part of chapter 3 (vv. 1-3) talk about their lives
being letters of recommendation for Christ. I read those words just hours after
talking to someone about why he doesn’t want anything to do with church.
You know what he told me? He had
a church experience where the people pretended to be deeply devoted to God when
they sat in the sanctuary, but the minute they stepped foot outside, they spent
all their time gossiping and engaging in all kinds of behavior that the sermon
20 minutes earlier was against. Their hypocritical behavior soured him on church
and on a relationship with God.
Ouch.
What a sobering reminder of the truth
of these very words from 2 Corinthians. Our lives are indeed letters, and all
those who come in contact with us read them. Some of them – maybe many of them!
– are going to make decisions about whether or not they want to learn more
about God based on our life-letter of recommendation.
So I’m asking myself the same
question I’m asking you today: what’s your letter of recommendation say? Do you
need to make some revisions?
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