JANUARY 2026 NEWSLETTER
January 2026 newsletter
Robert Lindenberger
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Psalm 118:24, “This is the
day the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” This verse is over my life and is constantly in
my prayers. I am an old man with a new
nature – I was born and raised with an old nature – that old nature was far
from knowing God Father, Son, Holy Spirit, all one nature.
I was in the Navy at 20,
living aboard a ship. I thought that to
be a good sailor, I had to drink, smoke, and run after prostitutes in all the
countries we went to. I was known as the
ship’s drunk.
The ship I was living on was
taken to dry dock for repairs, and when it was done, we went on a shakedown
cruise to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. There,
we picked up a chaplain who wanted to go to Norfolk, Virginia (our home port)
On our way back. The chaplain held divine services in the mess
hall. A shipmate asked me to go, and I
obliged. After the service, the chaplain
talked to me personally and asked if I would accept Jesus The Christ as
Savior. I said no at that time, but the
same shipmate asked me to attend a Youth for Christ meeting at the YMCA in
Norfolk. I went with him, and that night
they showed a Billy Graham film. When
the invitation was given. I went forward
and accepted Jesus The Christ as my Lord and Savior.
That was 20, almost 21 years
ago – I believe the God who sought me, found me, and gave me a new life nature
has been with me even when I left him, but has always brought me back.
So where are you now, Bob, I
must say, I am where I am because God put me here. I am closer to my Lord and Savior, JESUS THE
CHRIST, than I ever have been before.
Hallelujah!
I live in an assisted living
facility called the Towers of Titusville, Florida. Every day I pray – thank you, Lord, for one
more day on planet Earth. And I want a
closer walk with you, and to do this, I must trust and obey. There is no other way to be happy (blessed)
says you trust and obey.
Who am I, really? The answer to that question is found in the
answer to another: what is God’s heart toward me, or, how do I affect him? If God is the Pursuer, the Ageless Romancer,
the lover, then there has to be a Beloved, one who is the Pursued. This is our role in the story.
In the end, all we ever
really wanted is to be loved. “Love
comes from God,” writes St. John. We
don’t have to get God to love us by doing something right – even loving him. “This is the love not that we love God but
that he loves us and gave his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” Someone has noticed, someone has taken the
initiative. There is nothing we need to
keep it up, because His love for us is not based on what we’ve done, but who we
are: His beloved. “I belong to my lover,
and his desire is for me. (song 7:10).
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