It was the day I received an empty envelope from my uncle that I knew the value of a letter - the envelope was well addressed, with the proper postage stamp, but there was nothing inside. We all receive letters from time to time, and yet, little do we realize the spiritual lesson we can learn from letters. Before we take our letters to the Post Office we must have gotten (apart from the ink and paper) an envelope as well as a stamp (or the money for it) ready.

The Bible tells us that God knows everything, and that He is keeping a record of our lives. On the Judgment Day, we will be required to give an account of what He has recorded (Romans 14:11-12). “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works” (Revelation 20:12). When we stand before God in judgment, it will be too late to change our eternal destiny.