Mail....

Mail.....

After being gone for awhile the mail piles up....there are bills, catalogs, political challenges, donation requests for a multitude of causes.....piles and piles...
And now bills come on the email as well...all waiting  to be acknowledged....and/or paid, tossed, shredded, deleted, whatever...I think that is what I dread the most, coming back to that task....when it was household mail, that was one thing, but now with business mixed in it grows the piles  tremendously so I put it off as long as possible..a day and then wade in....sorting, tossing, sorting again, finding out the most urgent pieces and take care of them, working my way through the pile of bags....

Looking through the Bible, letters were important...they held information that the sender and recipient really needed, probably no junk mail....the whole Book is a letter to us...it contains instructions, challenges....nothing needs to be tossed, shredded or deleted....we wade into it, challenged by it words to our hearts, souls and minds...

There are threatening letters, forged letters, introductory letters, instruction letters, intimidating letters, history letters,....so many types...with so many ramifications and reactions..

People were terrified, drawn to the temple, drawn to one another, drawn to God, through these letters...but if people hadn't of obeyed, we wouldn't have the Bible now....it wouldn't be translated into as many languages as it is....and more on the way...the importance is unmeasurable.....thank YOU for Your Word to us...the people who listened to Your Spirit the put words to "paper"... For our instruction.....

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Samuel 11:14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

1 Kings 21:8 So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, placed his seal on them, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city with him.

1 Kings 21:11 So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel directed in the letters she had written to them.

2 Kings 5:5 “By all means, go,” the king of Aram replied. “I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman left, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold and ten sets of clothing.

2 Kings 5:6 The letter that he took to the king of Israel read: “With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman to you so that you may cure him of his leprosy.”

Ezra 7:11 [ King Artaxerxes’ Letter to Ezra ] This is a copy of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest, a teacher of the Law, a man learned in matters concerning the commands and decrees of the Lord for Israel:

Nehemiah 2:7 I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may I have letters to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, so that they will provide me safe-conduct until I arrive in Judah?

Nehemiah 2:8 And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the royal park, so he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple and for the city wall and for the residence I will occupy?” And because the gracious hand of my God was on me,.....
Nehemiah 2:9 So I went to the governors of Trans-Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters. The king had also sent army officers and cavalry with me.

Nehemiah 6:19 Moreover, they kept reporting to me his good deeds and then telling him what I said. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.

Esther 9:20 [ Purim Established ] Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes, near and far,

Esther 9:30 And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of Xerxes’ kingdom—words of goodwill and assurance—

Isaiah 37:14 [ Hezekiah’s Prayer ] Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord.

Jeremiah 29:1 [ A Letter to the Exiles ] This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets and all the other people Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Jeremiah 29:3 He entrusted the letter to Elasah son of Shaphan and to Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon.....

Jeremiah 29:25 “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You sent letters in your own name to all the people in Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the other priests.
Jeremiah 29:29 Zephaniah the priest, however, read the letter to Jeremiah the prophet.

Matthew 5:18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

Acts 9:2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

Acts 15:22 [ The Council’s Letter to Gentile Believers ] Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, men who were leaders among the believers.


Acts 23:34 The governor read the letter and asked what province he was from. Learning that he was from Cilicia,

Acts 28:21 They replied, “We have not received any letters from Judea concerning you, and none of our people who have come from there has reported or said anything bad about you.

Romans 16:22 I, Tertius, who wrote down this letter, greet you in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 5:9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—

1 Corinthians 16:3 Then, when I arrive, I will give letters of introduction to the men you approve and send them with your gift to Jerusalem.

2 Corinthians 3:1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

2 Corinthians 3:2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone.

2 Corinthians 3:3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

2 Corinthians 7:8 Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it—I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while—

2 Corinthians 10:9 I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters.

2 Corinthians 10:10 For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing.”

2 Corinthians 10:11 Such people should realize that what we are in our letters when we are absent, we will be in our actions when we are present.

Colossians 4:16 After this letter has been read to you, see that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea.

1 Thessalonians 5:27 I charge you before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters.

2 Thessalonians 2:2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come.

2 Thessalonians 2:15 So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.

2 Thessalonians 3:14 Take special note of anyone who does not obey our instruction in this letter. Do not associate with them, in order that they may feel ashamed.

2 Thessalonians 3:17 I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand, which is the distinguishing mark in all my letters. This is how I write.

2 Peter 3:1 [ The Day of the Lord ] Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.

2 Peter 3:16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.