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I feel that God will continue renewing my youth and physical
vigor and mental powers as long as necessary to get His job done.
I have had to come to realize that this excessively arduous job of
THIS NEW DIMENSION, getting into nations where doors were closed
to the Gospel before, traveling the WHOLE WIDE EARTH--is one few
could endure. While I was driving myself on, even in fatigue, my
physical body was taking a beating.
There was a time when Jesus needed to take off a little time
and go aside to a quiet place and get some rest. So I have decided
I must do.
I am not here because of faith in man's modern methods, but
by faith, for all healing is in Christ--but being here in a position
of enforced REST from strenuous routine and travel--keeps me in
REGULAR HOURS of health-meals--and I cannot have this opportunity
to recoup vitality while still traveling and constantly speaking.
I have Dr. Lochner with me, giving me twice daily rubdowns
(massages) and I get regular hours for sleeping. In a couple of weeks
I'll be back on the job as vigorously as ever.
My left ankle received a serious sprain three months ago, after
speaking to a packed auditorium in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. A
sprain, as I have learned, is worse than a break. It seems to me
mostly healed by now but is still far from being back to normal.
I have had to learn to walk all over again, and still am a bit
unsteady. But God is with me, and I NEED YOUR PRAYERS!
I have at least ten more years of vigorous active work needed
to finish the Work that God has committed to me--or LESS, if God
cuts time shorter, which is most likely!
Yesterday the idea came to mind to write a BOOK--it may become
a series of articles--I hope in the new magazine QUEST/77--a sort
of opposite to the famous H. G. Wells book Outline of History.
Such a book seriously needs to be written. I did manage yesterday
to write out a synopsis OUTLINE of the 14 major chapters the book
will require.
Meanwhile, news from Pasadena is that all is well. Our Great
God is on His throne!
With deepest love,
Herbert W. Armstrong