If you love Jesus . . .

Have you seen this email that's making the rounds?

This is a Thomas Kinkade painting. It's rumored to carry a miracle! The water is supposed to be running.

They say if you pass this on, you will receive a miracle.

This is a simple test: IF YOU LOVE JESUS, SEND THIS TO AT LEAST 10 PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE PERSON WHO SENT IT TO YOU!

If I don't get this back, I will know you really didn't read it.

Too bad that the person who sent it to me did not know 10 people who would admit to knowing the Lord.

Do You Love Him?

Yes, I do, but . . .

1. . . . Jesus Himself teaches several ways for His followers to show they love Him—and sending this email to ten friends isn't one of them.

2. . . . I'm not aware of any documented miracles derived from emails or Thomas Kinkade paintings.

3. . . . if I truly "do unto others as I would have them do unto [me]," I'm not going to fill my friends "in boxes" with this total and complete waste of bandwidth.

However, I'll let you know if posting this counts as passing it on to ten people—and qualifies me for a miracle.

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Comments (17)

Plus the 11th Commandment is "Thou shalt not Forward Forwards to other people and spam them because you think its 'cool'.

At least I think it should be the 11th one.
Bravo! Bravo! I couldn't have written it any better
Three excellent points. Thanks for sharing.

I'm personally not a fan of the aesthetic of Kinkade (although he has some great technique), but I'd have to think that animated gif above would make him a little sad. It's just bad.
If you get to the root of what is going on when people send you something with this type of statement: "if you are their friend, you will send it back"....the root is manipulation, which is a foundation of witchcraft.

I am sure that your friends don't intend to manipulate you, they just want to show you something they think is pretty and want you to know they are your friends, but that's what it is. So I may enjoy a pretty picture, but won't forward anything with that type of demand. Ignorance is not bliss. It is spiritual immaturity and dangerous. The lack of knowledge is why the people of God are destroyed. (Hosea 4:6) If you speak without knowledge, it shows you lack wisdom. (Job 34:35)
Also practicing superstitions ("pass it on for a miracle") is not being Christlike.
I always get stuff like that... never forward it on.

I can't help but wonder if some people really sit out there and thinking by sending an email that they will recieve a miracle... I certainly hope not.
4. Everything miracle we receive from God is by grace, not because we collected enough points :)
"If you do not forward this email, you do NOT LOVE JESUS!" How many emails have I received with this accusation? The test of our love for Jesus is NOT in what we forward to others, but how we LOVE others. And love does not threaten or accuse.
These emails that claim you will receive your miracle if you pass the message along, smack of idolatry. Our health, healing, indeed, our LIFE does not depend on an email.
I hope that most of the senders really mean no harm by sending these messages, but I do wish the body of Christ would be a bit more diligent about what they send out in an email.
Please do not get me started on email rumors - how many times I have received the "The name of God will be removed from the television air waves" because the sender (usually Christian) did not take a few mintues to check the information out on Google or Snopes.
Oh well, Christians - Gotta love 'em.
It is so good to have a Christian write about such e-mails. Anyy time I receive an e-mail which is good except the statement that I am somehow ashamed of Jesus if I do not send it, I delete the emding before sending it on. There are times to take the time to forward excellent e-mails (not like this one, of course) and time to simply leave them alone and do something else.

I get really irritated with e-mails like this. I get at least one or two from my mom a day. And I myself am not going to perpetuate an inbox annoyance that is not going to bring me a miracle if I forward to my entire address book. Last I heard, God brings us miracles, not passing on e-mail forwards.

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