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2 Corinthians 3:6-18

The word of God is not a letter, it is Spirit. John 6:63, ÒIt is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.Ó How have you been receiving the word of God? Have you been receiving it lightly, or seriously as a letter or Spirit? If you have been receiving the word of God as a letter, it will weigh you down, and you will be better off not to have received it than to receive and be weighed down into stagnation with no motion in life. However, if you have been receiving the word of God as Spirit, you will have life and the word will make you a rider rather than a pusher. The word will be carrying you around and above in this wicked generation. The letter kills. 2 Corinthians 3:6, ÒWho also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.Ó Ask God for the grace to be spending valuable time on the word of God. It is when you receive and believe in the word that you will become a believer because you will be living what you have received. The word of God would mean less to you until you no longer receive the word only as daily bread, but also as oxygen. You can do without bread 2 to 3 days, but without oxygen, you are dead. Today, carefully consider desiring and asking God for the grace to increase you with the zeal for His word that is life, not letter.