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<strong>Attack</strong> <strong>Your</strong> <strong>Lack</strong><br />
way street. Both sides have to profit or it's a bad deal.<br />
"What's wrong with God, anyhow?" was a question<br />
I held inside me but never said out loud.<br />
Somewhere a light was shining inside me and<br />
I could hear a little bell going off in my mind. A<br />
truth was on the edge of my consciousness but I<br />
couldn't quite get it into focus. What was<br />
happening?<br />
God was trying to get through all the bad<br />
teaching I had heard about receiving.<br />
<strong>Your</strong> Salvation Was A Part Of God's<br />
Receiving Something Back From His<br />
Giving<br />
God was trying to show me that He gave... and<br />
He—God himself—expected to receive and DID<br />
receive as a result of His giving. I had not been<br />
close enough to God to understand this. One<br />
reason was that in my first 17 years of life I had<br />
never wanted to receive Jesus Christ into my<br />
heart as my personal Savior. That's a sad fact but<br />
it's a fact nonetheless.<br />
Papa was a preacher. I grew up in church and<br />
under the preaching of the Word of God. But I<br />
dreamed of being a lawyer and walking in the<br />
footsteps of Amos Pleasant <strong>Roberts</strong> who had been<br />
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