{"id":172233,"date":"2023-07-17T04:26:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T09:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=172233"},"modified":"2023-07-10T05:42:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T10:42:06","slug":"46-k-wilderness-10-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/46-k-wilderness-10-q\/","title":{"rendered":"“Enduring Word Devotional” (Guzik)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0<\/strong>(2 Corinthians 3:2-3)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The first Bible of my own was a paper-back version given to me when I came forward at an altar call to give my life to Jesus Christ. It was just a New Testament,\u00a0The\u00a0<\/em>Living Bible\u00a0<\/em>version, and on the front, it had a picture of a child on his father\u2019s shoulders and said, \u201cThe Greatest of these is Love.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have many more translations of the Bible now, and it seems like there is a never-ending stream of new Bible translations. No matter what Bible you like to read, the principle of 2 Corinthians 3 is still true:\u00a0The Bible others will read is your life<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You yourselves are our letter<\/strong>, Paul wrote. Every letter has an author, and we are\u00a0a letter from Christ<\/strong>. Every letter has readers, and we are\u00a0known and read by everybody<\/strong>. Our life is like a letter, and we can\u2019t hide it. People you meet every day read the letter of your life. We can\u2019t blame them for doing this, because if the work of Jesus is real, it will be real in our lives.<\/p>\n

Because every Christian is a bible, perhaps it\u2019s time to recognize some new translations:<\/p>\n

The \u201cAshamed to Follow Jesus\u201d version (AFJ)
\nThe \u201cSin Doesn\u2019t Apply to Me\u201d version (SDAM)
\nThe \u201cOther Christians are Terrible\u201d version (OCT)
\nThe \u201cChristian Life is Miserable\u201d version (CLM)
\nThe \u201cHolier than Thou\u201d version (HTT)<\/p>\n

How do we become a \u201cgood translation\u201d for others to read? Again, look at 2 Corinthians 3:3. Every letter is written with a\u00a0pen<\/strong>, and Paul says the letter of their Christian life is\u00a0the result of our ministry<\/strong>. This means we should never neglect what other Christians can do in our life. Isolating ourselves as Christians is a bad thing to do.<\/p>\n

Every letter is written with ink, and Paul says we are written\u00a0not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God<\/strong>. Have you yielded your life to the Spirit of God? Are you walking in stress, or walking in the Spirit? If you are \u201ctranslating\u201d the Bible poorly, perhaps it\u2019s because you are walking in stress, and not the Spirit.<\/p>\n

Every letter is written on something, and our \u201cbible\u201d is written\u00a0not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts<\/strong>. This means we have to let God write His Word on our heart.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s sad to think that perhaps we haven\u2019t translated the Bible very well into our lives. When we provide a poor translation, other people read it and get the wrong idea about Jesus. If you aren\u2019t a follower of Jesus Christ, I\u2019m sorry for the bad \u201cletters\u201d you\u2019ve read. But remember that ultimately, it\u2019s all about Jesus Christ. Instead of criticizing \u2013 sometimes with good reason \u2013 the poor ways people translated God\u2019s truth and power into their daily life, why not let Jesus write into your life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0(2 Corinthians 3:2-3) The first … Continue reading ““Enduring Word Devotional” (Guzik)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172286,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172233\/revisions\/172286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}