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Bible: 2 Corinthians 2:17-3:3

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You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts (V.2).

At school I once wrote an essay about how much money was being spent on a sport’s ground in our local area—and how that money could have been spent better to help the community. My teacher liked it and told me to send it to the local newspaper. And they printed it as a guest column! I was really excited to see my writing in the paper. Today . . . well, that article is long forgotten. We all want to do stuff that will last. Whether it’s writing, painting, acting or anything else. We want to do something that will put our names in the history books; something that will remind the world that we were here. But so few people actually manage this. So should we give up? When Paul wrote letters on specific issues to local churches, he probably had no idea his words would be kept for us 2,000 years later. Yet God still uses those letters to encourage and instruct us today. Sure, that shows Paul’s writing was very valuable, but think about this: even if God hadn’t used him to write those letters, Paul’s work would still have had unending value. “You yourselves are our letter,” he wrote to the Corinthian Christians, “written on our hearts, known and read by everyone” (2 CORINTHIANS 3:2). The people—not what got printed—were what mattered most. So be encouraged! As we live for Jesus and look out for His people, anything we do will make a difference that will last. We are never forgotten by Him

WHEN WE LIVE FOR GOD,
WHAT WE DO LASTS FOREVER.

Youth Edition – Our Daily Bread Ministries