November 28, 2000
I hope I am able to deliver Connie to the Lord bright, happy, full, well, strong, and any other conditions of good that fall within the influence of mortals. Hopefully, my own struggles will not infect her, and hopefully, while we dwell together as long as we both shall live, her environs will enhance her apprehensions of those things for which she was apprehended by Christ. That was a tedious sentence. Try this one: I hope, by following the Lord myself, I can help her to thrive here and arrive there pleasing to him. No, the tedious sentence says it better.
I also hope for like things for my sons (and their families). I regret that the Canaanites still live in the land. As Joshua told Israel (and as the heavenly Joshua told us), "they will be pricks in your sides and thorns in your eyes." [Numbers 33:55] They were not destroyed then by Israel, and they still live in me (those sinful tendencies that God gave me the responsibility to deal with).
In my own defence, I was fighting for survival. Life is not easy for a poor man with a hungry family. That does not, however, excuse me for stopping short of winning the war or the race. I hope God will work in the lives of my sons so that they will be as vehement for the Lord as I have been and more vehement.
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