Its Genetic

My sister recently was diagnosed with high cholesterol and asked for advice. She assumed some of her family would have had experience with this kind of malady since she was aware that our Dad had it (I was not aware of this which is another story...apparently there was much about my dear old Papa of which I was not aware) and that it was "genetic".

This set my mind to wandering across the decades and back again. I heard the voice of a nephew asking many years ago "What's with the men in this family?...We're either drunks or preachers". After 30 years I'm prepared to answer. We're both.

I guess there's something "genetic" going on. We got some stuff to deal with that's worse than high cholesterol. Its even worse than alcoholism. Drinking really isn't the problem. Something deeper's goin' on. There is within these Evans boys a powerful predisposition to be raving madmen. So when we fall down ( e.g., in a gutter in Mexico City) and eventually cry out to God and when He comes to rescue us we've just got to tell somebody. "You can get you some new genes". Can I get a witness from cyberspace? Somebody wave a hankee or sumthin'!

But we still got to fight high cholesterol et al (all that genetic stuff) til' we get home and Jesus finishes His work of grace in us.