One more takeaway from Amy Shively Hawk’s book Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton. She quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson at the start of one of her chapters. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
From our reading of the Bible, this is God’s hope for us as well. As we discovered in this blog and in my book, God purpose for us is more that to change our belief system, it is to renovate our entire soul—our beliefs, our actions, our abilities, our values, our motivations, our pattern of behavior. If our soul is changes so it becomes like God, then what lies before us or behind us is of little consequence because we will be able to face anything life can throw at us.
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[1] Amy Shively Hawk. Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton. Washington, DC: Regnery History, 2017, p. 63.
