Junk Mail!!!
Posted: Sunday, July 25, 2010
by Danni Andrew
Out of the Darkness
SHOUT proclaim the name of the Lord
Just make sure it's HIS word
But Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard nor let a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you, 'Shout !' Then you shall shout !" Joshua 6:10
I just received another one of those emails that tells me if I don't forward it, God is going to be upset with me and I am going to have "bad" luck for the rest of my life. I am not ashamed of God nor am I afraid to speak His name. But, it is only in the way and the timing of these moments that I really question the validity of these statements. My life is not going to miraculously change because I sent on an email out of fear.
To speak the name of the Lord in the reverence that He fully deserves is not the context of what these emails are suggesting. Not only are they trying to tell you that if you "DO" something...then God will be happy with you. They are also suggesting that God is going to be mad if I don't forward this email. An email generated by a person somewhere cannot, and does not, make me a godly person. Forwarding it simply fills up my friends inbox with more unwanted junk mail. I would prefer to send things to those waiting inbox's that will uplift them and make them think about who God REALLY is!
When the Lord speaks to me and gives me something to say. I must say it! I must say it to eveyone that the Lord lays on my heart to say it too! Truly hearing God's voice comes from time in the word and time on my knees. If the word or email, comes from me, I am only making noise! Forwarding an email that threatens bad luck is simply noise!
(c)copyright 2010 danni andrew
Just make sure it's HIS word
But Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard nor let a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you, 'Shout !' Then you shall shout !" Joshua 6:10
I just received another one of those emails that tells me if I don't forward it, God is going to be upset with me and I am going to have "bad" luck for the rest of my life. I am not ashamed of God nor am I afraid to speak His name. But, it is only in the way and the timing of these moments that I really question the validity of these statements. My life is not going to miraculously change because I sent on an email out of fear.
When the Lord speaks to me and gives me something to say. I must say it! I must say it to eveyone that the Lord lays on my heart to say it too! Truly hearing God's voice comes from time in the word and time on my knees. If the word or email, comes from me, I am only making noise! Forwarding an email that threatens bad luck is simply noise!
(c)copyright 2010 danni andrew
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