Written on February 27th, 2008 - 4:25PM Last Updated: February 27th, 2008 - 4:25PM Last Accessed: April 8th, 2026 - 10:09AM
After 10+ years of use, my long-time personal email address suddenly stopped working.
When I checked with the company who provided it, thinking it was someone hacking my account, I was told it was due to a billing issue.
I found out that they had been trying to bill me since 2004, but couldn't because of an expired credit card on file.
That entire time, I had assumed my email account had been part of my family's main Internet service package. When this company took over our old company, back around the same time, we were told we could have three email addresses for free under the same account. So we moved my personal one to that account to save me money.
But, the company had no record of this, and that was why they were demanding payment for those years.
They told me I owed them $400+ for the 3-4 years the account was being paid. I explained what happened, and the woman said she would see what they could do. When she called back, she said they could cut it in half, to $200. And if I didn't pay, it would go to collections.
I didn't feel peace about agreeing right then, so I told her I'd call her back. That evening, I prayed about it, telling God about my doubts. I wanted to be a good steward, and not spend the money he's given me on such a mix-up, when I felt the company had mishandled the transfer of my account in the past.
But, at the same time, I fell upon God's grace, in case I had remembered wrongly. I wanted to be a good example to the company, of how a Christian may suffer wrongly for doing good. I left it in the Lord's hands.
A few days later, I received a voice message from the same lady, saying the email account had been reactivated; but that I needed to call her to discuss the balance still on the account.
When I called, she surprised me by saying the balance had been totally cleared. She had just wanted to tell me "in person" rather than on voice-mail! In addition, my email account had now been correctly transfered to my family's main account, like it should have been in the past.
This is a long explanation of how God can show us mercy, giving us favor with the world. I wasn't counting on my own works, that I had remembered correctly about the transfer. I told God it was up to Him; that I would pay if I had to, but I would rather if He found a way to wipe out the balance.
So, I went from suddenly owing $400+, to $200, to $0, in the span of a week or so. And, at the same time, I was a good witness to the lady who was working with me. I believe she did what she could to get the balanced wiped. I told her I would pray that God would bless her in return, and I ask you to do the same; her name is Dana.
Praise God for the "little" things, that can be "big" to us in the here-and-now. He shows mercy to His children; we must simply throw ourselves upon His grace and believe He will guide us.
As you read this site, you will hopefully come to know Yahweh more fully.
But all of this continuing knowledge is useless unless and until you come into union with Him. I use the word union because it is truly a marriage. It is that deep connection we all seek, for which we most often look in other people. However, the truth is that our hearts will only be fulfilled when we enter that union in fullness with the One Who made us.
This is the grace of God, that He has not stayed distant for us only to worship as Creator. But He has come unto us, even become one of us—in His Son, ChristJesus—in order to share an intimate union with us. He desires such closeness that it truly will envelope our entire life, transforming us into something new and wonderful.
You may have already entered this union with Him and only seek to know Him better through reading here. But if you have not, as you do read, let this Gospel sink into your heart as you read it now.
God loves you, and has cast your sins into the sea. He has sent His only Son as the Savior of the world—that includes you.
That Son, JesusChrist, was born as a man through a virgin who had given her life to Yahweh; He lived without sin, reflected the glory of His Father, God, in all His words and deeds, and was persecuted even unto death because of it.
His death upon a cross was the powerful explosion that separated you from your life of death. It remains for you, now, to enter into that death with Him. As you die to the one you are now, a person separated from God from your many sins, you will be born anew, with a nature predisposed to live rightly. This gift is free to you, with nothing you can do to earn it. It is the mercy of God to offer it to you, as He loves you so much! All you must do is receive it by trusting Him to have delivered you. Simply place your life in His hands and embrace the freedom that came through that death on the cross.
The Gospel is that Jesus did not remain dead, but rose again on the third day after His crucifixion! Death could not hold Him, as He was without sin. And so death will not be able to hold you, as you identify with Him fully through your trust in Him. Let go of yourself and confess Him as Lord of your life. The power of His death and resurrection will work in you all that your Creator has destined for you. You will truly enter a new life and experience that intimate union you have been seeking all of your life.
So ponder these words as you read here of this great God—Yahweh—and all that He has revealed to His creation. Let His Spirit testify to your heart that these words are true, that God is Love, and that He sent His Son so that you might receive the life that is unbound by time and space. As you feel that witness in your heart, simply believe and receive what He is offering to you, even now, and begin your new life as a child of God.
Please write to me and let me know when you take this step, as I will be your brother in Christ—we will be one in Him!
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