Letters January 7, 2013 ISSUE

Letters

Dalwyn Knight, Bruce Higley, Tobias Weissman

Most helpful

This is a short note to tell you how grateful I am for our periodicals. In the December 10 issue of the Sentinel, Léon Emmanuel Kenga Wambi wrote an article, “ ‘Demons’ and witchcraft have no power.” At first glance, I thought, “This is not a challenge of mine.” But I read it and found a most helpful thought that I have been working with ever since.

“By radically relying on the true understanding of God and of the relationship that links God to man, each of us can free ourselves and others from all kinds or forms of beliefs that would take us hostage.”

Wow! What does that not apply to?

There are so many things that would try to hold us hostage. Accident (it will take a long time to recover), illness (same thing), regret, relationships, remorse, contagion, age (young or old)—these are all beliefs that try to hold us hostage (and the list could go on and on).

But by radically relying on the true understanding of God, we can be free of all the beliefs that would attempt to hold us hostage. Not that this is easy—but at least we can see a way out.

Dalwyn Knight
Seattle, Washington, US

Like panning for gold

I used to seldom read the letters columns in our periodicals. I was glad the writers were benefitted, but didn’t expect those letters would be worth my time. I was mistaken! A few years ago, I began skimming this column like one panning for gold. True, not every letter addresses my personal concerns at the time, but since then I’ve regularly found a sparkling nugget, the reflected light of which has steered my attention to ideas that have blessed me and/or others.

When I read a letter by Barbara Alexander in the October 29, 2012, Sentinel (page 2) it was such a valuable heads-up for me because it brought to my attention an editorial I had missed called “No darkness at all” (Sentinel, August 27, 2012, p. 27). I had to see what made her read and reread it, and I’m sure glad I did!

This editorial turned out to be (what I consider) a real classic! It's undoubtedly relevant to anyone who wants to understand the important point it explains so clearly. Go and see! It’s a keeper, if ever there was one! I’m sure that I, too, will refer to it regularly, and I sincerely recommend it.

Bruce Higley
Sacramento, California, US

Comments from JSH-Online.com

[“How divine Love restored a marriage,” Wendy Clayton, Sentinel, December 17, 2012] 

I learned at the start of my marriage that happiness is first to understand man’s relationship to God, and second to apply that understanding to the marriage. Not to look at marriage as a means of ownership, which is destructive from the start. 

Tobias Weissman
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