We live in a parched and thirsty land, a land that is hungering and doesn't know what it hungers for..... a time when the earth is dry and barren and a sense of darkness prevails. People are searching and are burdened and barely have time to smile. They brush past each other without so much as a second glance. There is not time to lend a helping hand and spend a few minutes listening.
There is an urgent longing for a sense of reality and authenticity in a world filled with gloss, glamour, sensationalism and smokescreens.
Everyday in every area of our lives that you turn to and and every newspaper, tv channel, radio broadcast you watch or read echoes the same headlines. It's all pretty much a picture of doom and gloom, sadness, fear and destruction.
So how in the midst of all this can you even begin to cast your mind into an area of beauty, or even more so, how can you think of delivering a "Letter of love" ?
Today, nothing is needed more than a portrait of Jesus Christ, love itself. God's urgent nudge to us today is to take the message of the love of Christ and the love of God our Father out to the desolate, hungry and helpless in our world and to share with them this incredible message of hope and love and life eternal.
He instructs us in 2 Corinthians 3: 3 :" You.. are a letter from Christ... written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God.." We just need to be bold enough to take Him into our everyday lives in our everyday world and He will use us as His "love letters" to deliver His message to His people.
This is a time for action and not to be quiet, a time to stand up and be counted as one of His own in spreading the Big story of His love and the hope we have in Him through faith in Jesus Christ.
====Selah====
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