Does God Check His Email?
Dear God, I pray for the cure of cancer. Amen.
That was the first line of an email I received last week … so I kept reading. The text continued with:
“All you are asked to do is keep this circulating. Even if it’s to one more person. In memory of anyone you know that has been struck down by cancer or is still living with it. A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. Please keep this candle going! There will be a cure soon.”
So I began to ponder this email … and I didn’t pass it along, I decided to post it here.
I don’t think God is reading every email we are reading, but I do think this: He is aware of what is on the mind of the author of each email as it is being written. He was aware of the state of mind of the original author of this email as s/he wrote this email. He’s aware of what I thought when I first read the email … and as every person who received the email read that first line, he heard their thoughts. And everyone reading this post … He’s with you.
Of course, that’s my faith. What do you think?
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1 opinion for Does God Check His Email?
Jan
Aug 19, 2008 at 7:10 pm
I agree with you that God knows our every thought and how we react to these emails. I think you did a wonderful thing in posting this email to your blog rather than forwarding it to many people who would rather not receive chain emails. I love the candles in your post.
Below is a devotional I just got today on hope. I think it applies so well to cancer:
“My heart is glad, and…my flesh also will rest in hope.” -Psalm 16:9
The meditation that follows was written by Billy Graham in HOPE FOR EACH DAY: WORDS OF WISDOM AND FAITH.
“Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope. Dr. McNair Wilson, the famous cardiologist, remarked in his autobiography, DOCTOR’S PROGRESS, ‘Hope is the medicine I use more than any other - hope can cure nearly anything.’ Years ago Dr. Harold Wolf, professor of medicine at Cornell University Medical College and associate professor of psychiatry, said, ‘Hope , like faith and a purpose in life, is medicinal. This is not a statement of belief, but a conclusion proved by meticulously controlled scientific experiment.’ When hope dies, despair will overwhelm us. Hope is both biologically and psychologically vital to us. Men and women must have hope - and true hope comes only from Christ. He gives us hope for the future as we turn in faith to Him - hope for eternity, and hope right now.”
-Billy Graham
Not everyone will agree with this, but I take great comfort in the hope offered by Christ.
Jan
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