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Writing a letter is a very common experience to any of us. It’s our means of communication. However, if you were to write God a letter, what would it be? A letter of complaint about how unfair God is to you? A demand letter urging God to answer your WISH LIST? A resignation letter due to boring Christian life or disappointment from Christian realm or discouragement from unmet expectation? Or a love letter telling God how Awesome He is amidst all circumstances in life?

I want you to think it over my friend of what would your letter be to God. I am not saying that any letter other than love letter is worthless and rubbish. God is very much interested of your thoughts of Him, to Him and for Him. But don’t you think that if you send him a letter of complaint/ demand/ resignation might imply how limited your knowledge about God? Don’t you think it also suggests that you are asking God to come down from His throne because He is not the genie in the bottle you thought He is?

Our reaction towards circumstances in life, issues of the heart and our attitude towards God are just the results of how much we know our God. Let me end this article with Job and Paul;
Job 1:20-22 says “Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped. He said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked I shall return there. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD. Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God.”

In Job 2:10 says “But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.”

Paul while in his prison cell wrote to the Saints in Philippi, and says in Philippians 4:11 “Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.” In the Book of Hebrews 13:5, Paul says “{Make sure that} your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, "I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU,"

Our letter to God may not be mailed in special delivery today—but our letter to God is written in our hearts and transmitted through our actions and behaviors towards people and mostly towards God

© maria lileth c. abejuela --April 20, 2005 ccf mlylbly