Written By God’s Spirit

Written By God’s Spirit

2 Corinthians 3:1-3 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

Pretty neat imagery there! True believers don't need credentials or letters of commendation by others to be used of the Lord. We are His letters, written on by the Spirit of the living God.

2 Corinthians 3:4-6 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Our sufficiency is from God. "Sufficiency" means:

Sufficient, ability or competency to do a thing.

The word "able" in verse 6 means:

To make sufficient, render fit; to equip one with adequate power to perform duties of one.

As we walk daily with our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, He equips us with all we need to serve Him through the power of His Word and the indwelling Holy Spirit.

2 Peter 1:3-4 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

May 19, 2021
Jerry Bouey