The Devotional – 1083 – Foot Steps in Second Corinthians, On Going

The Devotional – 1083 – Foot Steps in Second Corinthians, On Going

Let me say or add a few more thoughts about the natural and spiritual indwelling of the body of Christ for God’s children. The church has a natural and spiritual body too. Most call this assembly a membership, but it is more than a simple membership where one can be a member or one can flip flop from one membership to another. For example; I have had the opportunity to have membership at two separate golf courses. These are very different from each other, thus I hold fast to one and avoid the other. Thus it is true for the saint (believer) of God, he or she has two memberships. One a natural or physical membership to partake of what the kingdom of the world offers. Or two a spiritual or supernatural membership to partake of what the Kingdom of God offers. The apostle Paul has a lot to say about this in Romans 5 – 7. So what matters? 

CHALLENGES & COMMENTS – 2 Corinthians 3:1-6

The apostle begins his conversation again on the subject of letters of commendation or acceptance. Should there be a letter from someone recommending or approving one for membership or position of leadership. Should I require a letter of approval from someone for you to read my devotionals, or should you require a letter from someone to be encourage to read these devotionals? Absurd! Is it not?

While correspondence does happen it is only to make aware, not to recommend. People who are saved by the Grace of God have more than a membership with Him. They actually belong to God as a son or daughter, as such; these sons and daughters are epistles “letters” of Christ to everyone who reads the character of you or me.

These epistles are not made with instruments of pen and paper like these devotionals that have natural limitations, but are made with the instructions and sound teaching of pastors and teachers, who from the Living Word, (the Holy Bible) write on tablets of our heart. This is serious, men and women! It is not membership that makes a saint, but a relationship with the Living God who has ordained elders and teachers to help you and me to live in the Spirit of God and not in the letter of the Law – Again, Romans 5 – 7 is a necessary read.

Yes truly it is God who has made these teachers of the Grace of God sufficient as ministers of the New Covenant of God, written not with pen and ink, but with the innocent Blood of Jesus Christ. God has provided these men in order to grow His Family, a family that the world system condemns, thus there is suffering as we mature into the “image of Christ”.

The question of each of us is to ask our self – are we Christ like because we heed the instructions of our pastors and teachers. Or are we self-motivated to live in the flesh while away from church, since it is only a membership? These are questions that you already know the answer to since you are the epistle of Christ in you, or you are the epistle that confuses those around you.