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Coupons, Bad Relationships, Emails – Things you can cut
If you’re like me, you get a lot of email. And if you’re really like me, most of it is junk. Sure, those daily literature excerpts “delivered right to your inbox” sounded like a great idea when you were on vacation and decided to tackle War and Peace–but if you still haven’t read the third digest after a month and the rest are piling up behind that one, it’s time to evaluate the usefulness of this “no-hassle” tool. Read the rest of this entry »
Things that annoy me…
Emails like the following:
Concentrate on this sentence:
“To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.” When God takes something from your grasp, He’s not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.
Concentrate on this sentence:
“The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.”
Something good will happen to you today. Something that you have been waiting to hear. This is not a joke; someone will call you by phone or will speak to you about something that you were waiting to hear.
Do not break! Send it to a minimum of 7 people……… JUST DO IT!
I love (hate) how the will of God is juxtaposed against the promise of good if we do such-and-such. Maybe no one really takes these email threats seriously, but it’s nevertheless a ridiculous proposition. I don’t understand how someone who truly believes in the former can forward such a message with the latter.
Forwarding an encouraging quote is one thing. But the power of the message is completely negated when we manipulate it with tags like, “You must send this to 20 people in order for it to come true!”
God is God. Yes, his children will always be protected by His grace. But protected from what? Pain? Discomfort? Death? No. We are not promised prosperity, and we are not promised health. On the contrary, we are promised suffering:
“For to you it has been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake.” Philippians 1:29
Now there’s a quote worth passing along!
