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I grew up in rural Saskatchewan. I remember reading Uncle Arthur's Bedtime
Stories, which taught good moral stories and occasionally doing some Sunday
School lessons by correspondence. Later as a teen I went to a girl's club in
town and some confirmation classes. I had an awareness of God, a little head
knowledge, but no personal relationship.
There was a lot of world unrest at the time. It was the Cuban missile
crisis with a lot of talk about bomb shelters and another world war.
Once in awhile I'd hear "Back to the Bible" on our radio. They'd talk
about life after death and I'd be under conviction but didn't want to
think about dying.
In time, the world crisis passed, I finished high school and left home.
A year later my roommate invited me to a Barry Moore crusade. He spoke
from Amos 7:7-8 how God was checking a wall with a plumb line to see if
it was truly straight. He said the Ten Commandments were the plumb line
test by which God could judge if people were up to His holy standards.
He also said that each one of us had sinned and fallen far short. A popular philosophy at the time was God is love and peace so surely if one did even a
little more good than bad the scale would tip and God would somehow overlook
the sin. That idea was pretty much blown apart when he read James 2:10 "For
whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty
of all."
That night, realizing I was as guilty as anyone, I accepted Jesus' death on
the cross as payment for my sin. He bought my freedom and I accepted his
gift of eternal life.
Over the next nearly forty years God has never left me. Through all of the
storms and upsets of life, the good and hard times, God is constant,
faithful to His word, patient and merciful.
I have known several people who volunteered at Western Tract Mission over
the years. Now that I'm retired, I thought this would be a worthwhile area
to invest some of my time. My friend Tina encouraged me that there were
areas that I could help.
I'm convinced we all need to be in the Bible more and mailbox lessons are a
good way to do that. No matter what age let's be daily about our Father's business, working and praying, watching and waiting until He returns for us.
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