God’s character
October 24, 2006
Tonight, during my dinner break at work, I picked up a book that had been donated to the library’s book sale: Ever Increasing Faith by Smith Wigglesworth. Besides having a funny name, I knew this guy had been an evangelist so I brought it with me to read at dinner. I read a little bit of the intro and the first chapter/sermon. While flipping through, I caught a glimpse of a phrase from a later chapter and it stuck out at me and stuck with me:
The Holy Spirit will make us epistles, ever telling out that Jesus our Lord is our Redeemer…
Not that the Holy Spirit will create an epistle for us but that by the Holy Spirit we will become epistles. Wiggleworth’s chapter, Life in the Spirit, is based on Paul’s encouragement to the Corinthians in 2 Corinthians 3:3: “…clearly you are an epistle of Christ…written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.”
I love that I serve the Author of Life and the Word Made Flesh. And I am thrilled that He’s allowed me to be even a mere character (as in the letter ‘k’) in the story He’s weaving. And, as in what Wiggleworth exclaimed, I also get to be a royal storyteller…I get to tell – I am sent forth to tell His story!
*****************************
There are some people in my life who are hurting right now. And every part of me wants to tell them that there is hope in Christ and for them to know that I have begged God to heal their lives. I ask for your prayers for them and for me – to share what God’s laid on my heart. May I ever tell out…..
