does God not have Email?

One of my favorite movies of all-time is Mike Judge's classic, Office Space. It begins with the main character, Peter, getting railed by his boss(es) for "not getting the memo" on the new cover sheets for the TPS reports. Since this 1999 cult classic "not getting the memo" has become "not getting the Email" and I find myself wondering sometimes if God even has Email. If he does, there must be so much spam in his inbox that he often "doesn't get the Email."

Take the case of Jonah and Nineveh, for instance. God told Jonah to preach doom to this most evil city (think Vegas with Michael Vick as Mayor), and he did. So Jonah sat back and waited for the doom to take place. So he waited... and waited... and waited. Apparently God didn't get the Email that Jonah had, in fact, completed his task. Maybe God thought Jonah was still walking around Nineveh preaching.

As we know, God did "get the Email", but he got several others as well; all sorts of Emails from the people of Nineveh apologizing for their sinfulness and asking for a second chance to live out the rest of their days for the Lord. Weighing all the options, having read all the Emails, God chose to give Nineveh just that chance.

I guess what I'm saying, in a very round-about way, is that when I think God hasn't gotten my Email I need to remember that he has gotten millions of others, and he has carefully weighed all the options and decided on the path that is best for his plan for his creation, and unlike Jonah, I need to be happy with it. It isn't always easy, and I often wonder if God might have labeled me as spam, but I know that in his perfect will all things are done for good.