Tuesday, April 03, 2007

God will bless you...

Another forward...
I think I receive at least six forwards a week. I know that doesn't seem like a lot, but when I don't get that much email, it adds up. I have this one friend who is notorious for this, she forwards lots of things to me. Most of which (although well intended), are very annoying.

You know the kind...
Blah, blah, blah, forward this to x number of people and God will bless you.

I am immensely blessed, but I never forward those emails.
Believe me, this is not intended to brag, but I really don't think God is waiting for me to send that specific email, to a specific number of people, to bless me. In fact I know he doesn't.

Many of those emails are beautiful. They have a message that conveys God's love, He sacrifice and His awesomeness. It's amazing to me the truth that is sent through them. And then there's this silly tag on the end that says: forward this to x number of people and God will bless you.

Side note: I have been known to forward an email and delete that last little bit...

So, if you never get any forwarded emails from me that ask you to pass something on to get blessed, it's because I believe that God is sovereign. He both blesses in ways we want and ways that we are not expecting and maybe don't want.

We are blessed because He loves us, and desires all of us to love Him back.

(Sigh) Okay, I'm done venting now.

P.S. Thank you very sincerely Christie for the forwards ;)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like the vent and agree whole heartedly!

Anonymous said...

Sound Theology, my dear! God blesses becauses He chooses to...exclusive of email blessings! Probably a long time ago, people were using smoke signals to send these blessings.... how times have changed!