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
Love For His People,
Inc.
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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
All previous editions
of Now Think On This can be found on this
Blog, and on the website: Now Think On This
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