Return to Sender

Don't you just love getting packages, letters, and email? I get so excited when I hear the UPS man's big brown truck rumbling onto my street. I run to the window, excited to see if he will stop and drop off a package at my doorstep. When we see the mailman stopping at my box, the kids excitedly yell out in unison "Can I go get the mail? Pleeeeeeease." I LOVE, absolutely LOVE to open up my inbox and find that I have personalized emails from those I love. I savor the click of opening each one and finding the morsel inside that is just for me.

But, I hate spam and junk mail and companies trying to get me to accept their "free" gift. I don't want that junk. I want to take those things and take a big red permanent marker and write across each and every one of them...RETURN TO SENDER!!!!!!

And God wants us to do the same things with the thoughts that aren't' from him.

"You never do the right thing"--sorry you've got the wrong addressee--RETURN TO SENDER!!!

"You're a horrible wife/mother/friend/human being"--oh you must have made a mistake, that woman doesn't live here anymore she died with Christ--RETURN TO SENDER!!!

"You are stupid"--wrong name, the only person who lives here is called a child of God--RETURN TO SENDER!!!

"Just quit now, you will never get it"--I can't sign for that one either because I endure to the end--RETURN TO SENDER!!!

So next time that thought pulls up to your doorstep and tries to get into your mind...get out your permanent marker and use the Word in red...Jesus said, "Get thee behind me Satan." And don't feel bad about returning that thought back to its original sender!