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GOD'S FORD ON THE GO<br />
By<br />
Luella Marsh <strong>Ford</strong><br />
RELATIVES<br />
And everyone that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or<br />
children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundred-fold, and shall inherit everlasting<br />
life. (Matthew 19:29)<br />
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. (Matthew 10:36)<br />
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or<br />
daughter more than me is not worthy of me. (Matthew 10:37)<br />
And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. (Matthew 10:38)<br />
In order to put <strong>Go</strong>d first, one must definitely put relatives, ambitions, likes and plans on the altar.<br />
<strong>Go</strong>d is a jealous <strong>Go</strong>d.<br />
<strong>Go</strong>d deals with the individual and so often one member of a family will be saved and this one<br />
lives for <strong>Go</strong>d in the face of much ridicule and opposition.<br />
Some of the adjectives used to describe a Christian are "square," "odd ball," "peculiar," "off in the<br />
head." Many times the relatives are the ones to cause the most grief. In other words the family feels<br />
rather sorry for the one who lives for <strong>Go</strong>d. I know what this means. I didn't want to be different, but<br />
in order to please <strong>Go</strong>d, I just was. When I left off the lipstick and other cosmetics, I was given a long<br />
lecture by two of my relatives. I told them if I would put the cosmetics back on, I would lose what<br />
I had in my heart.<br />
Another relative asked, "Do you think you are better than the rest of us, just because you are a<br />
Christian?"<br />
"No, I don't," was my reply.<br />
"You could have amounted to something if you had left religion alone," was a jibe by another<br />
relative.<br />
"Has Luella gone crazy?" another asked.<br />
What would you do? What did you do? What did I do?<br />
I kept the right attitude toward all. I knew they didn't understand.
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