Late last night, after I got home from work and had already published yesterday's post, Dad and I had a long talk, one of a kind that we've had before but haven't done on a while. I needed it, and I think Dad needed it too.
We wound up talking about all kinds of things, most of it having to do with our mutual walks in The Lord. We came to realize that we struggle with a lot of the same things and find ourselves dealing with a lot of the same sin issues, issues that Dad said his father struggled with. The Old Testament often speaks of sins that persist "to the third and fourth generations" (Exodus 20:5, 34:7; Numbers 14:18; Deuturonomy 5:9). There are some personal things that wisdom would suggest I not share here.
Dad and I do have one thing in common that I can share: it's far too easy for us to withdraw from others. Dad admonished me, lovingly, about my poor church attendance as of late. I couldn't sven get angry about it at all, because I knew he was right and that it had already been weighing on my mind and heart. Dad, meanwhile, admitted that he withdraws from others because it's easy for him to Borge that others aren't worth the time and effort. He knows it's wrong, as God commands us to love another, and He equips us to do so. Pray for us in this area, that we would follow the Lord in loving our brothers and sisters like we should.
May the Lord bless our gathering together to worship Him, to edify one another and be edified.
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