love letters.
i love cards. i love writing long, emotional, heartfelt cards, and i love receiving and reading them, too. cards make me feel loved and appreciated, like i’ve made a big enough impact in another person’s life for him or her to write me a card. as an insecure person who is constantly seeking public attention and approval, i feel content and satisfied about my social life whenever i read loving, encouraging cards.
last week was my birthday, and i received many birthday cards, some of them from people that i did not expect. reading them made me feel all warm and tingly inside, and i happily set them down in my pile of cards that i’ve received over the years. looking at the pile, i thought, “dang, i wish i had a pile of cards from God; cards that tell me how much He loves me, how proud He is of me, how much He blesses me, what His plans for my life are; love letters from God.”
and then it hit me, the entire Bible is a collection of love letters from God!
even though i grew up as a Christian (in a pastor’s family, as a matter of fact), i was never really into reading the Bible. i’ve always thought that the Bible was boring and hard to read, and i felt like i already knew everything i need to know about the Bible through the many years of Sunday school and its Bible stories. i knew that reading the Bible was key to spiritual maturity, but it has always been a challenge for me to pick up that big book and dive into it. even as a soonjang, i would teach my soonwons how to do QT and encourage them to read the Bible every day, but i always failed to read the Bible even every week, let alone every day. i was content with hearing sermons at church, Open Chapel, and Gethsemane and never took the time to personally study the Word.
through GKYM Vision Conference, however, God really convicted me to start reading the Bible every day, and not only to read it but also to study it. once i started reading and studying the Bible, i realized, “DANG, the Word is so interesting!” it took me almost 19 years to realize how enriching and exciting the Bible really is. what a fail, right?
since that realization, i’ve been trying to read and study the Word daily, even though there are still many days where i fail to do so. i’ve also started keeping a QT journal, so that i don’t just read a passage and forget about it the next day but really continue to apply everything that God teaches me in my life. looking back at the journal, i noticed that sometimes my notes are hard to follow and decided that i should create a blog where i reflect on my QTs in essay format (? hahaha) and also share with others what God has spoken to me.
SO, here is that blog. in this blog are my replies to the love letters from my Heavenly Father. i am not the best writer out there, and my notes are really nothing compared to God’s Word; however, i pray and hope that my replies to God’s love letters will be encouraging and blessing to whoever reads them. :)
