Our local post offices are currently closed. It can be really frustrating when you’re waiting for a delivery, or, when you want to send something and there’s no way of getting the item to its destination (sorry Mum, you’ll have to wait for your birthday present)!

In 1913, when parcel post was first introduced in the US, it became legal to mail children. Actual live human beings could be posted and sent across the country! Imagine sending your child to their grandparents and the delivery never arriving. Stress. Full.

Seems kinda crazy to think about sending people as if they’re letters and yet that’s exactly what God did with us. First, he sent Jesus, then he sent the Holy Spirit, and then, as Paul told the Corinthians, “You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone.” (2 Corinthians 3:2 NIV).

We’re the message-carriers, sent from heaven, to deliver good news, to be seen and known by everyone we meet. Imagine how frustrating and disappointing it must be for God, as the sender, when his message is delayed or never arrives. “You are a letter from Christ… written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God” (2 Corinthians 3:3 NIV). Woven into your life are stories and experiences where God has shown up and transformed you. It doesn’t matter that your life is not perfect – none of our lives are. What matters is that you’re delivering God’s message, even when your life is messy.

To whom or where is God sending you today?

You are a letter waiting to be delivered. Let’s not live lives where we end up being returned to the sender because we never reached our destination.