Whispers: A Devotion from 2Corinthians 3:2,3 NKJV

Reader-friendly?

With the new Microsoft Windows Vista Version having just been released the question is often asked of salesmen if the new system is “user friendly”?

But what is exactly meant by that question? If someone comes up on a laptop computer, opens the computer up, and begins to use it but soon finds out that they can’t find any basic icons on it, like the “print” button or this person has difficulty understanding the logic of how it’s set up, then it’s not “user-friendly”. The computer’s purpose is not simply accessible and open, and people will revert to a system they are familiar and comfortable with.

The Apostle Paul spoke to the Corinthians in a basic, clear and intentional manner. For example, he said, “For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures…” – 1Corinthians 15:3, 4

What we speak to others should be as simple as the example Paul gives us, “according to the Scriptures”. Anything we ourselves think up and try to figure out on our own accord clouds the message we are supposed to deliver.

Here’s something to boast about… “For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.” – 2Corinthians 1:12

Here’s another area of our lives that should be reader-friendly, our daily conduct! Do we have two sets of vocabulary; one on Sunday and another the rest of the week? Do we behave in a manner that lifts God up or ourselves? Are others confused about your “Christianity”?

We can all muddy the message of Jesus Christ in word or deed, but we need to realize that the Bible tells us that others are watching and they should be able to “read” our lives and understand that we are Christ’s and no one else’s.

Are you God’s letter written for men to read and understand that God is wonderful and worth living for? Are you spiritually reader-friendly?

“You are an epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, 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.” – 2Corinthians 3:2, 3