You’ve Got Mail - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

You’ve Got Mail

Now Think On This

Steve Martin

  

One of my good wife’s favorite movies is You’ve Got Mail with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. It is considered one of those drama/romance genres. A rather cute movie, a love story about a struggling boutique bookseller Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) who meets, and then hates (or the other way around) Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), the owner of the corporate Foxbooks chain store that just moved in across the New York City street.

It is a classic movie which I enjoy watching also. Occasionally we’ll pull the video out, or maybe the DVD. I forget what format we have.

Short version, so as not to spoil it if you choose to check it out on Netflix or Redbox - Joe takes all of Kathleen’s customer business, and then they end up in love. But that only happens after they unknowingly exchange some emails with each other, which in 1998 was still new to some people. If my memory serves me right, and 9 out of 10 times it still does, the story develops in such a way that you keep hoping they will discover who the other one really is that they are communicating with, and that they would fall in love. In the end they do, and you get all teary eyed. At least my wife does. (And I think I have too.)

I thought it was rather odd that Holy Spirit (notice He is not “the” or “it” but a real person) would drop that movie into my mind as I finally woke up, after being woken up at 1 am this morning by Him. He is known for that. Giving you a random thought, even in the middle of the night, but then explaining it more after you spend a little time in waiting, and seeking, the purpose He had in giving it to you.

His communication style is fun at times. It reminds me of playing hide and go seek as a child, or even now with a grandchild. He will say something, wait for you to acknowledge Him, and then give you a little bit more to keep you hearing. Hide, seek, and find.

For me, it is how He gives a prophetic word for someone – just a picture in my mind, a single word, or a short sentence, and then as I speak it forth, He gives me more to share with that one He is wanting to bless. Moving in faith brings reward, and blesses others in the process.

So what about “You’ve Got Mail”? I just believe the Lord is wanting to get someone’s attention who is reading this, and let you know that it is actually He Who has been speaking to you all the time. You thought it was just you.

He wants you to know He loves you, knows where you are at, and is already working out the situation far better than you could hope or imagine.

You are not alone. You have not been abandoned. He knows the pain, hurt and sorrow. He has been there. Done that.

He loves you so much, and is so happy that you are His child. He is not out to “get you” as some would think. He is out to get you - to share more of His love with you.

So heh! You’ve got mail!

Now treasure this.

“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written:

"For Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”(Romans 8:31-39 NKJV)

Touch them even now Lord. Let them know of Your awesome love.

Love you,

Steve Martin

Founder

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Now Think On This #204 “You’ve Got Mail” by Steve Martin 

Date: In the year of our Lord 2015 (11.10.15) Tuesday at 2:31 am in Charlotte, NC

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Is the Temple menorah from 70 A.D. there in Rome?

Holiness, mystery and ancient secrets: Inside the Vatican

Israel Hayom diplomatic correspondent Shlomo Cesana on his meeting with Pope Francis • "Jerusalem is important to both of us," I say. He smiles and recites a blessing in Latin: "Next year in Jerusalem."

Shlomo Cesana

Israel Hayom political correspondent Shlomo Cesana with the pope. "Jerusalem is important to both of us"  |  Photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom

When you enter the catacombs of the Vatican, it is impossible not to remember the best movies made about the Holy See, whether it be "Angels & Demons" starring Ayelet Zurer and Tom Hanks, which is based on the book by Dan Brown, or "The Da Vinci Code" by the same author.

Holiness, mystery and ancient secrets go hand in hand in the imagination as well as reality. In the end, it is all based on the tradition of the Hanukkah holiday, which commemorates the miracles of the Maccabees who purified the Temple in Jerusalem and lit the menorah there. 

Two hundred and five years later, the menorah was pillaged and taken into exile in a march of triumph to Rome, where the event was commemorated in relief on the Arch of Titus. More than 2,000 years later, the prime minister of Israel gave a silver menorah to the pope at the Vatican. Reality trumps any fiction.

Now the prime minister of the Jews is asking the pope -- the leader of 1.2 billion faithful -- to save the world from the forces of evil emanating from Tehran, and not to rely on the good graces of heaven.

The connection between Jerusalem and Rome goes back to ancient times. The foundations of Western culture were laid in Jerusalem and Rome. 

In Jerusalem, the ethical prophets gave added value to the Torah set down by our forefather Moses, whether in relations between one person and another or between a person and their God. The vision of peace on earth and the hopes for salvation of our nation and of the entire world. These values reached Rome and the seat of Christianity and were distributed from there to the entire world.

Pope Francis has brought a new spirit to the Vatican. The symbol of the Vatican, the key that Jesus gave Paul in Banias at the foot of Mount Hermon, hangs at the entrance to his office and reminds us again, like all the beautiful wall frescoes, of the connection to the Torah of Israel, to the land of Israel and to Jerusalem. With a wide smile he extends a hand to me. "Jerusalem is important to both of us," I say, as someone who wrote the book "A Guide to the City of Jerusalem." He smiles and recites a blessing in Latin: "Next year in Jerusalem."

Prime Minister Netanyahu also met on Monday with the pope, accompanied by his wife, Sara Netanyahu. The two told the pope about their son who won the National Bible Contest, and the connection between Jewish sources and the foundations of Christianity. In the meeting with Pope Francis, who is expected to visit Israel in May 2014, the prime minister asked him to stay in Israel for five days and not three as planned, in order to have time to visit additional sites that are holy to Christianity. "Come to the synagogue in Chorazin, Jesus visited there," the prime minister said.

Netanyahu also gave the pope a copy, in English, of a book that his father Professor Benzion Netanyahu wrote about the Spanish Inquisition, as well as a large silver menorah. The pope gave Netanyahu a medallion bearing the figure of Paul -- Jesus' most important disciple. Later, when the prime minister was meeting with his Italian counterpart Enrico Letta, his wife Sara had lunch with the Italian prime minister's wife, Gianna Letta. 

The two of them spoke of the Hanukkah holiday, about strengthening women and about the fact that the two of them continue to work despite their husbands' job as prime minister: Letta as a journalist and Netanyahu as a child psychologist in Jerusalem.