I can sympathize with you losing your relatives and not knowing where they go.
I lost my mother three years ago to congestive heart failure. She also had serious case of depression for years and said that she hated God.
I was just beginning to come back to the Lord when we had to put her into a nursing home. I committed to take care of her when she got old but she was so demanding that we had to put her in the home. My dad was ready to fall over from exhaustion and I was losing sleep because she kept us up all night calling us to get her in and out of bed.
She knew she had this condition for years but refused medical treatment.
I didn't know she had the problem until she had to go to the hospital.
when she came back home it was as if she had lost her mind.
She was in the nursing home for four months before she passed on. She
was so far gone that the therapist couldn't do anything for her. I know
the therapist, she is one of my buckskinning friends, so if she said she
couldn't, I believe it.
While she was in the home I started to trust in the Lord like I used
to but steered clear of churches. I witnessed to her more than once when
she was in the home but I never recall her making a firm commitment to
Jesus Christ.
All I have to go on was that the hour before she went to sleep and
died in her sleep the nurse said she seemed to be at peace, something I
had not seen in my mother for years. I have doubts but at the same time
I should not write her off as dead. She has gone on to face the Lord and
there is nothing more I can do.
Now I still have my father to win to the Lord and he seems to have
his ears turned off.
I am not saying this to boast
I am doing good works because I feel the Lord is leading me to do it
that he thinks is foolish. I am leading boys in their walk with the Lord
in Rangers. I have pulled teeth and got him to meet some of my church
family. He can see the mighty works of God in my life and the lives of
my brothers and sisters in Christ, so he is without excuse. I have hope
that he will some day come to know Jesus Christ as his savior.
Onward In Gods Service
Randall A Hermanson
Pioneer Commander
FCF 1998
OP#1, Woodstock Il
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Randall,
Hey there it probally happened same to me. I just
saying is that we should share the gospel with our relatives and friends. It
just hit me hard when I lost two relatives this year. One was I knew real
great and the other I never met him, but he still was related to me. I don't
know his condition of his soul, just hope and pray that he knew Jesus
John
