Love Letters
The Bible is a precious, God-breathed message to you. In that sense it is very personal. Which of the following two examples best illustrates your involvement in the Bible on a daily basis? John Newton (Author of Amazing Grace) loved and pursued the same woman his entire life. He waited years till he was able to marry her and lived devotedly to her until her death. John expressed his love to his wife Polly through love letters. Polly expressed her love by saving these letters and after both of them died the letters were published in a widely celebrated collection in the 1700s. Consider another example. I found one of my friends late one night burning some papers in a bonfire. “What are you doing?” I asked. “It’s over.” He said, with a wry smile on his face. And with that he emptied the contents of a little box of love letters into the fire. This was his way of burning his bridges ...