No offense to anyone, but I think I may just lose my mind if I have to read one more cheesy e-mail that ends, "If you really love Jesus, you will pass this on to everyone you know within the next 24 hours and something really great will happen to you!" UGH!!! It just makes me cringe! How dare we treat the name of our Lord so lightly. Just "slap it on there". That'll get 'em! How sickening! No reverence. No awe. Just my old pal, Jesus. He won't mind. We have forgotten the fear and terror of the Lord. I know I'm rambling a bit. I'm not sure exactly why this annoys me so terribly.
So why are we passing the message on anyway? Because we love Jesus, or because we want something great to happen to us? Half the time, the e-mail is not something to which I would want my own name attached, much less that of my Lord. Often it contains Scripture taken out of context or ideas of selfish gain haphazardly "supported" with various bits and pieces of Bible verses. Anything to make you feel good. I think I just feel like we have such a skewed idea of God. We don't carry that deep, gut-wrenching respect for Him or His expectations anymore (if that makes any sense).
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amen to this. such a pervasive irreverence for the LORD's name grieves me. i pray that we will not dismiss God's great power, simultaneously terrible and merciful.
I agree. So strongly, in fact, that I almost didn't read this post because of the title...I'm glad I did.
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