Great Uncle Drenth

Okay. So I have not written in my blog for over a month.
I’m claiming that this is natural and not aversion or phobia.
Writers are told to write a minimum number of words every day, whether they feel an inspiration or not; whether they have a subject to write about or not. Well, I haven’t and I still don’t, but I owe my blog something, so here’s this update to the blog.

“But,” I should “sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;” 1 Peter 3:15, NASB. “You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.” 1 John 3:5, NASB.

I have recently found out that there is an infamous person in my family history. My great uncle, my mother’s uncle, Herman Drenth, was hung for multiple murders, and he apparently told the police “You’ve got me dead to rights on five, what good would fifty more be.” From this the newspapers assumed that there were at least fifty more and ran with it from there, along with some other quotes he gave police. The quotes were apparently after the police had beaten him severely. “Drenth” is listed in several web sites as Harry Powers, plus several other aliases. I only found this out because of a call from a person doing research for a project; we have no family memory of him, no stories, no legends, and no whispers from anyone, ever, about him. The family lineage is correct, but we knew nothing of him before this month.

I sure am glad for the promise “The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son's iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself,” Ezekiel 18:20 (NASB).

And that “21But if the wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed and observes all My statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 22 “All his transgressions which he has committed will not be remembered against him; because of his righteousness which he has practiced, he will live. 23 “Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked,” declares the Lord GOD, “rather than that he should turn from his ways and live?” Ezekiel 18:21-23 (NASB).