Spam Folders

I know you know what spam is. It seems like it is everywhere. I have spam folders on all of my email accounts and the spam programs do a great job at capturing the ill-intended emails and isolates them.

 

August 2004 Trip2 018mMy website is no different. Each day, I have a group of spam that goes to my website spam folder. I glance through them and if they are truly spam, I delete them.

 

As good as everything is, I still receive a few emails with comments that are spam. These I look at a little closer and if they are gibberish, they are trashed.

 

Yesterday I was deleting some old emails and then deleting my trash folder on my Full Measure of Joy email account. I found it quite interesting which blog post had received the most spam.

 

I had 84 emails from the blog post “The Lord Almighty is His Name.”

 

When I did research for starting a blog, the one thing most people agreed with was to give each post a catchy title. I’ve tried to do so, but in doing so, I have left out the name of the One for whom I’m writing. God. Usually nowhere in the title do you see His name.

 

I was thrilled that this was the particular one the spammers chose. Because it does tell them what my writing is about. The Lord Almighty! And if they chose to look a little deeper, they would find out about His Name as well.

 

Now I realize this isn’t how spamming works, but maybe, just maybe someone on the other side of the computer screen glanced up at just the right time and saw the words, “The Lord Almighty is His Name.” It’s my prayer in any case.

 

It’s my prayer for anyone who reads my blog. That they would come to understand and believe in the Lord Almighty and His Name.

 

We find this description of God in the Book of Amos. This short verse is filled with reasons to worship the Lord. His beautiful creation is reason to praise His Name. Take a look at the verse.

 

“He who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and reveals his thoughts to man, he who turns dawn to darkness, and treads the high places of the earth—the Lord God Almighty is his name.” (Amos 4:13 – NIV)

 

How are you praising God’s Almighty Name today?

 

So bring on the spamming. If this is the blog post the spammers continue to target, I’m pleased. God’s Name is being proclaimed. His mighty actions are being declared. His Lordship is being broadcast.

 

And isn’t that exactly what Full Measure of Joy is all about?

 

Grace and peace be yours in abundance,

 

Donna

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