What Do People Read In Your Life?
February 8, 2024
At the beginning of 2 Corinthians 3 in my worn out Bible, there are handwritten words that read, "What do people read in your life?". My handwriting....I must have titled this chapter years ago when I first read it......and it reminded me of something I witnessed while sitting in church many Sundays ago.
While living in East Texas, I found myself sitting behind a family of four in church one Sunday. As I watched the man put his arm around his beautiful wife, he pulled her in close to him....she put her head on his shoulder.....and then I noticed a little man of 5 years old standing on the pew between them. He put his mom's face in his tiny hands and kissed her on the cheek....she smiled lovingly at him. He then turned to his Dad...kissed his cheek and placed his little hand right on the place he had just kissed...almost like he was sealing the kiss there forever. There also was a daughter.....probably about 11 or so.....whose head was resting on her Mom's other shoulder. There wasn't a centimeter between them. The four of them were huddled so close together in each others arms, they became one.
This little family's love for each other shone like a beacon throughout the entire church to me....it's all I could see and couldn't take my eyes off the love happening a few rows ahead of me.
And to me, this was exactly what Paul was desperate to tell the people of Corinth....and to us today.....in 2 Corinthians 3, "Your lives are a letter written in our hearts. This "letter" is written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is carved not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts."
Did you catch that? Our lives...how we live them, whether in public or private, is the actual truth of our hearts. I would bet this little family had no idea anyone was watching them....they were simply living out the true love in their hearts for each other. Paul would have been so proud sitting behind them......
Which brings me back to the question I wrote in my Bible so long ago,
"What do people read in your life?"
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