Here is a verse that has meant a lot to me - and it seems to have an application that extends to email as well:

"Then those who respect the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD took notice. A scroll was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respect the LORD and honor his name."

"They will belong to me," says the sovereign LORD, "in the day when I prepare my own property. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not." " (Malachi 3:16 - 18, NETBible)

We often hear that we will give an account for every idle word that we say (or write). There is no denying that since Scripture tells us that sobering fact. Here we also have the positive side of that truth;

"Those who respect the LORD" can speak (and, yes, even type) one to another and not only encourage each other about the Lord's soon coming but know the promise that God "took notice".

God is reading your e-mail. Everything we write is known by Him. This is stating the obvious, yet the more we think about this the more remarkable it should be and encouraging.

People castigate the Internet as being a source of great evil, but here in (what I hope and feel is) the closing years of this age we are seeing a remarkable fulfillment of the above verse. The Internet isn't church - and shouldn't take the part of church for those who can go - but it is a wonderful tool that God is using - in the same way that He used the Roman roads and Alexander's Koine greek. The vainglorious Alexander thought he was conquering the world for personal glory when he was merely God's construction worker, actually "homogenizing" the various disparate Greek dialects to pave the way for the Septuagint and the New Testament.