2 Thessalonians - Week 5 - Day 3

READ 

2 Thessalonians 3:17 

17 HERE IS MY GREETING IN MY OWN HANDWRITING—PAUL. I DO THIS IN ALL MY LETTERS TO PROVE THEY ARE FROM ME. 

Paul’s custom was to dictate a letter to a scribe. Now at the end to his second letter to the Thessalonian believers, he took the pen in hand and signed his own name. Some think his larger writing was due to poor eyesight. It must have been special for readers to see his handwriting. His writing would not be easy to forge so they would know the letter was from him. 

REFLECT 

Has your heart warmed when you have seen a special friend’s signature on a letter? Imagine how the Thessalonians felt when they could see Paul’s name written by him.  

RESPOND 

To see that Paul normally used a scribe to copy his dictation, see Romans 16:22; 1 Corinthians 16:21; Colossians 4:18. Apparently his writing was distinctively different than the scribe’s writing.