I have boxes in my basement full of letters that I received from my husband while we were engaged. We were separated by 150 miles. Phone calls were the long distance calls we made in the 80’s that added up quicker than the dings on a gas pump. Therefore, calls were limited to one night a week. Our relationship had to thrive on the written communication of cards and letters, and oh, how precious those letters were to me!
At this time I was teaching first grade in the Christian school in Sumter, South Carolina and I lived on the church property in a trailer they provided for me. Hence, my mailbox was at the end of the schools’ driveway. The mailman came rather early in the day, so when I took my class outside to the playground I would allow one of my students to get the mail when we went outside (they eagerly awaited “their turn” for this special privilege!). I usually had a letter from Dale each day, and while the children came inside and got a drink at the water fountain, I would open my letter and begin to read. One day one of my students said, “Miss Ray, how come you always smile when you read your mail?” I explained to her it was because the letter was from someone very special. You can believe that when I read that letter there in the hallway, it wasn’t the only time I read it. I’d reread it at lunch, then again when I returned to my home in the late afternoon. It was a special message written to me and I didn’t want to miss a word.
When we read the Bible in our devotions, it’s easy to take a glance at the Scriptures rather than reading slowly and carefully. Many of the passages may be very familiar to us, causing us to scan the chapter instead of studying it. Just because I’d already heard that Dale loved me, do you think I scanned over those words each day? Not on your life! Even more so, we need to allow the Holy Spirit to teach us the precious things God wants us to hear from His Word. It would be better to read only a small portion of Scripture and come away with a single Truth that we can cling to and rejoice in than to read several chapters and only have an intellectual knowledge of the Bible. Take it to heart, because that’s how it came from God – from His heart!
Have you read His love letter to you today? What did He tell you? Smile and share it with someone else!
But these are written that ye might believe; and that believing ye might have life through his name. John 20;31
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