As a Christ like we are living epistles, we can literally be read
I was teaching in a conference on Saturday and suddenly got very emotional by one of my lines of taught.
"God's agenda is to see every believer become a copy of what the scripture says".
2 Corinthians 3:18 says, "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
The explanation to that scripture isn't different from how a photocopier works. If you're familiar with a Photocopying Machine, you'd have observed that you can't make a copy of a document without placing the face of the document directly on the glass. Then the plain paper would pick up the information in the glass which would eventually change the plain paper into the same image as the original that was copied.
This means that as a believer, you can be so transformed that men would look at your life and literally understand all the Bible verses they've been reading. Your life would become the explanation to scriptures, an human sermon that draw men to Christ.
Just in case you're wondering how possible this can be, 2 Corinthians 3:3 says, "Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart". Did you see that? We're living epistles, we can literally be read.
The same way people can tell that God is absent in your life is the same way they can tell when they can see God working in your life. Zechariah 8:23 says, "Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you".
But while this is a possibility among Christians, not many Christians will reach this dimension. And that's because not many Christians are patient enough to access revelation. They read the Bible, but the haste in their heart will not let them see. They know the scripture, but lack the mystery. That's why no matter how many times they quote the scriptures they know, they won't see results.
The Word has to become flesh in your life too, so that your family members can behold the glory of God. John 1:14 wasn't referring to Jesus alone, it's a prophetic destiny of every believer. "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth".
We must reflect God's word bodily. We already know from scriptures that God's word can influence your lifestyle. John 6:63 says, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life". So God's word is both spirit and it can give you a life. You may look like a low-life or even a no-life now, but that can change if you'd receive the life in God's word, a supreme life.
Then again, you can't receive the life in the word without receiving a revelation of the word. Let's settle for a life after revelation, not just Bible study. Overcome haste and invest time in deliberate meditation on God's word. That's how it works.
If you don't like something about your present life, you can can do something about it by tapping into the life from scriptures.
Reading the word isn't the same thing as beholding the word. While reading is an activity of the soul, beholding the word means seeing God's word exactly as it is, and that's what revelation is.
The letter killeth, it's only the Spirit that makes the word alive. Reading the text or letter of the Bible alone may frustrate you, seek revelation.
I hope this has brought enlightenment to someone.
Remain ever blessed!
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