Personal Congruence: A Work of the Spirit

“He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life” (2 Corinthians 3:6). 

Our confidence comes from having been made competent (See 2 Corinthians 3:4-5). But our competence is not from fulfilling the letter of the Law while our spirit yearns for something else. Instead, His Spirit fills us, wins our spirit, and brings our deepest desires into congruence with the way He designed His universe. It has always been about becoming compatible with all that is holy, beautiful, and sustainable. 

Praise God that His Spirit seeps down into our smallest cells and begins reconstructing our DNA. What bubbles back up to the surface is a body that obeys, a heart that wants to, and a mind that has quit looking for excuses. Oh, the joy of unity within oneself and towards God!

Signed, Sealed, and About to Be Delivered

“You show that you are a letter from Christ, … written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts” (2 Corinthians 3:3). 

The Word of God lives in this world. It is not flat like ink on paper, but is deep and powerful like the Spirit that first wrote life into existence. It is not brittle like granite, rather it is breathing and moving and able to reproduce like the flesh into which it is written. 

We are the letter from God. We need to be in the mailbox with the flag up!