母亲和我阿姨们现今仍用书信来往，这种沟通方式在现代社会中已经越来越少人使用了。她们每周都会写信给对方，非常有规律，甚至连邮差本身若没有书信递送，还以为出了差错呢！书信的内容全是生活大小事，有喜悦、有心碎，全是身边亲友的日常点滴。

I love to reflect on this weekly exercise of the women in my family. It helps me appreciate even more the apostle Paul’s words that those who follow Jesus are “a letter from Christ,” who were “written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God” (2 Cor. 3:3). In response to false teachers who wanted to discredit his message (see 2 Cor. 11), Paul encouraged the church in Corinth to keep on following the true and living God as he had previously taught. In doing so, he memorably described the believers as Christ’s letter, with their transformed lives a more powerful witness to the Spirit working through Paul’s ministry than any written letter could be.

我喜欢思考母亲和我阿姨们每周的书信往来。这让我更能体会使徒保罗说的，追随耶稣的人是“基督的信”，且“不是用墨写的，乃是用永生上帝的灵写的”（哥林多后书3章3节）。保罗为了反驳那些试图扭曲福音的假使徒（哥林多后书11章），鼓励哥林多教会的信徒，继续追随他先前教导的那真实永活的上帝。他用令人印象深刻的形容，将基督的追随者描绘为“基督的信”，他们用已经得到改变的新生命，见证圣灵藉着保罗所做的事工，这胜过任何文字书信。

How wonderful that God’s Spirit in us writes a story of grace and redemption! For as meaningful as written words can be, it is our lives that are the best witness to the truth of the gospel, for they speak volumes through our compassion, service, gratitude, and joy. Through our words and actions, the Lord spreads His life-giving love. What message might you send today?

上帝的灵在我们的生命中，写下恩典和救赎的篇章，这是多么奇妙啊！我们的生命是福音最好的见证，比白纸黑字更有意义，藉着我们对人的关怀、服事、心存感恩和自然流露的喜乐，一切都不言自明。上帝透过我们的言行，传扬祂牺牲的爱。今天你要传递什么信息呢？

Lord God, write the story of my life so that I might reflect Your love and goodness to those I encounter today.

3 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? 2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. 3 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.

4 Such confidence we have through Christ before God. 5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. 6 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.