What Are You Exporting?

Spam. We all know what it is and we all have grown to hate it (and I am not talking about the canned variety of SPAM that you can purchase at the grocery store)! I am referring to the very annoying (and even sometimes malicious) unsolicited junk mail that shows up in our email in boxes! In fact, we go to great lengths to limit the amount of incoming spam through the use of various spam filters that are on the market today. If it were not for these spam filters ... I think all we would do in the course of a day is deleting spam!

Did you ever wonder where all this spam comes from? I noted in yesterday's paper a list of the top countries when it comes to the origin of spam. Guess what country tops the list? If you guessed the good old U.S. of A. - you got it right! The U.S. comes in on top with 17.5% of all spam originating right here at home! And when you consider that second place Russia originates only 7.8% -- you can see that the U. S. is not in any danger of losing this distinction of being the number one exporter of spam!

This got me thinking about what we as Christians should be exporting. Yesterday I blogged about choosing to give thanks when tempted to grumble and complain. So how are you doing with that? Are you exporting more thanks than complaints? How about acts of kindness? Have you exported any of them lately? And of course, there's the gospel message. How have you been at exported the good news of Jesus Christ? Take a moment and evaluate what you are exporting to those around you. You may just find out that what you are exporting is no more beneficial than spam!

Thanks for stopping by . . .

pj