Do You love Him?

[Myangel]

This is an email I received. Thought I would post it here (sorry to those who have read it before) being Easter it think its appropriate! God Bless you all!

Let me tell you, make sure you read all the way to the bottom. I almost deleted this email but I was blessed when I got to the end

God, when I received this e-mail, I thought…

I don’t have time for this… And, this is really inappropriate during work.

Then, I realized that this kind of thinking is… Exactly,
What has caused lot of the problems in our world today.

We try to keep God in church on Sunday morning…
Maybe, Sunday night…
And, the unlikely event of a midweek service.
We do like to have Him around during sickness…
And, of course, at funerals.
However, we don’t have time, or room, for Him during work or
play…

Because… That’s the part of our lives we think… We can,
And should, handle on our own.

May God forgive me for ever thinking…
That… there is a time or place where…
HE is not to be FIRST in my life.
We should always have time to remember all HE has done for
us.

Yes, I do Love God.
HE is my source of existence and Savior.
He keeps me functioning each and every day. Without Him, I
Will be nothing. But, with Christ, HE strengthens me. (Phil 4:13)

Do You love Him?

THE POEM
I knelt to pray but not for long, I had too much to do.
I had to hurry and get to work
For bills would soon be due.
So I knelt and said a hurried prayer,
And jumped up off my knees.
My Christian duty was now done
My soul could rest at ease.
All day long I had no time
To spread a word of cheer.
No time to speak of Christ to friends,
They’d laugh at me I’d fear.
No time, no time, too much to do,
That was my constant cry,
No time to give to souls in need
But at last the time, the time to die.
I went before the Lord,
I came, I stood with downcast eyes.
For in his hands God held a book;
It was the book of life.
God looked into his book and said
“Your name I cannot find
I once was going to write it down…
But never found the time”

Easy vs. Hard

Why is it so hard to tell the truth but Yet so easy to tell a lie?

Why are we so sleepy in church but Right when the sermon is
over we suddenly wake up?

Why is it so hard to talk about God but yet so easy to talk
about nasty stuff?

Why is it so boring to look at a Christian magazine, but yet
So easy to look at a nasty one?

Why is it so easy to delete a Godly e-mail, but yet we
forward all of the nasty ones?

Why are the churches getting smaller but yet the bars and
dance clubs are getting larger?

Just remember-God is watching you. Prayer Wheel-Let’s see the
devil stop this one!

Of all the free gifts we may receive, Prayer is the very best
one…

To be continued

 

[Myangel]

May God keep you and bless you. If this doesn’t give you
chills, nothing will…this message is very true. Hope you are all as blessed as I was from this story.

There once was a man named George Thomas, pastor in a small
New England town. One Easter Sunday morning he came to the Church carrying a rusty, bent, old bird cage, and set it by the pulpit. Eyebrows were raised and, as if in response, Pastor Thomas began to speak…
"I was walking through town yesterday when I saw a young boy coming toward me swinging this bird cage. On the bottom of the cage were three little wild birds, shivering with cold and fright. I stopped the lad and asked, “What you got there, son?” “Just some old birds,” came the reply.

“What are you gonna do with them?” I asked.

“Take 'em home and have fun with 'em,” he answered. “I’m
Gonna tease 'em and pull out their feathers to make 'em fight. I’m gonna have a real good time”
“But you’ll get tired of those birds sooner or later. What will you do?”

“Oh, I got some cats,” said the little boy. “They like birds.
I’ll take 'em to them.”

The pastor was silent for a moment. “How much do you want for
those birds, son?”

“Huh?? !!! Why, you don’t want them birds, mister. They’re
Just plain old field birds. They don’t sing. They ain’t even pretty!”

“How much?” the pastor asked again.

The boy sized up the pastor as if he were crazy and said,
“$10?”

The pastor reached in his pocket and took out a ten dollar
bill. He placed it in the boy’s hand. In a flash, the boy was gone.

The pastor picked up the cage and gently carried it to the
End of the alley where there was a tree and a grassy spot Setting the cage down, he opened the door, and by softly tapping the bars persuaded the birds out, setting them free.

Well, that explained the empty bird cage on the pulpit, and
then the pastor began to tell this story.

One day Satan and Jesus were having a conversation. Satan had
just come from the Garden of Eden, and he was gloating and boasting. “Yes, sir, I just caught the world full of people down there. Set me a trap, used bait I knew they couldn’t resist. Got 'em all!”

“What are you going to do with them?” Jesus asked.

Satan replied, “Oh, I’m gonna have fun! I’m gonna teach them
how to marry and divorce each other, how to hate and abuse each other, how to drink and smoke and curse. I’m gonna teach them how to invent guns and bombs and kill each other. I’m really gonna have fun!”

“And what will you do when you get done with them?” Jesus
asked.

“Oh, I’ll kill 'em,” Satan glared proudly.

“How much do you want for them?” Jesus asked

“Oh, you don’t want those people. They ain’t no good. Why,
you’ll take them and they’ll just hate you. They’ll spit on you, curse you and kill you. You don’t want those people!!”

“How much?” He asked again.

Satan looked at Jesus and sneered, “All your blood, tears and
your life.”

Jesus said, “DONE!”

Then He paid the price.

The pastor picked up the cage he opened the door and he
walked from the pulpit.

Notes: Isn’t it funny how simple it is for people to trash
God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell.

Isn’t it funny how someone can say “I believe in God” but
Still follow Satan (who, by the way, also “believes” in God).

Isn’t it funny how you can send a thousand jokes through
e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing and not send it to many on your address list because your not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it to them.

Isn’t it funny how I can be more worried about what other
people think of me than what God thinks of me.

I pray, for everyone who reads this that they will be blessed by God in a way special for them.

 

[m134e5]

I have deleted countless e-mails like this without even opening them- I’ve seen so many. I am sure most of us on here have as well. The guilt trip “If you love Jesus you won’t be ashamed to forward this” usually makes me want to delete it even quicker. I love Jesus, I hate junk mail- and I doubt Jesus loves what I sometimes say when I open my e-mail inbox to find only junk mail, so anymore I neither read nor forward them.

 

[Myangel]

m134e5:

I have deleted countless e-mails like this without even opening them- I’ve seen so many. I am sure most of us on here have as well. The guilt trip “If you love Jesus you won’t be ashamed to forward this” usually makes me want to delete it even quicker. I love Jesus, I hate junk mail- and I doubt Jesus loves what I sometimes say when I open my e-mail inbox to find only junk mail, so anymore I neither read nor forward them.

I hear you. I hate them also and NEVER do I feel guilty about not forwarding them on. I laugh when it says forward it on to 10 people and God will grant you your wish or a miracle will happen at 6.33pm yeah right I dont need to forward an email , I PRAY. However I do read them especially when they have prayers and I forward them on deleting the part where it says “FORWARD THIS ON FOR A MIRACLE TO HAPPEN” blah blah blah. I like the idea of people saying a little pray whilst at work

 

[Rammy]

I on the otherhand read them all, because they often are sent from a friend with good intentions. I however do not like the “threat” part at most bottoms, and when i copy and paste carefully, i end it where it should, ommitting the part that often removes the love feeling of the post.

Don’t be to hard on the sender, but if there is something you do not like…edit it…you think it has not been put through some form of metimorphasis to be able to place an hourly limit on Gods Love…

Come on, we do have the ability to edit.

I seemed to skim right over the “baaah-humbug” part of your comments, to see the true meaning of what you do not like added to a post/e-mail. I honestly did not take the orriginal post as a ticking bomb ready to eliminate my faith, or Gods love of me…if i did not forward this. I do have some ability to discern.

So come on…just copy past, and do not add the threat on the bottom…too easy to do…Naaa!