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.
Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was, will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? - 2 Corinthians 3:1-8Reading these verses, tears begin to well up in my eyes. We have been so deceived for so many years that our ways in the church today will lead to the Life that only He can give. However, God said that my ways are higher than your ways. 2 Corinthians chapter 3 clearly spells out that we are living epistles to be read of all men.
We must go through the process of becoming like HIM and operating as He did. We must bring ourselves in subjection to a renewed mind washed by the Word to exemplify this type of lifestyle that 2 Corinthians speaks of in chapter 3. We were commanded to, "GO and make disciples of all NATIONS." I can tell you from personal experience that this Ministry of the Spirit is more glorious. I have tasted of it. Now my responsibility is to live it everyday.
It is time for us to leave the traditions of MAN and return to the life that only Christ can give.
The question stands before each of us today, will you surrender under the freedom of His will for your Life?
Will you allow the Most High God to take you and compel (constrain) you by His great Love for purposes that you can not even imagine right now?
The world around you needs to read your living testimony. God is counting on us to get the Gospel to a lost and dying world....
Come, be set apart for unto God and his service in your life.
His return is eminent and we don't want to be left with nothing to show for the eternal Kingdom of our Great God and King.
Fully embraced by His Great Love,
Todd
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