A Man's response to The Trilogy
Carol:
My
husband feels things. He has suffered hearing these stories! As he has
struggled with the Lord about it, he has received peace. This is some of what
God has taught him.
Rick:
When reading the true stories of women such as Heather and Natalie, it is very clear that Our God Did/Our God Does many wonderful things. However, at the same time it is also obvious: evil is alive and well on planet Earth.
The man called Adam in these stories wasn’t just a villain in a novel or the personification of evil, he is a real person who is a God-hater and Christ-rejecter. He targeted young Christian home-schooled girls because he felt that in doing so he was hurting God and destroying the faith of those who believe in Him.
By definition, nothing can hurt God, but these terrible acts of cruelty to young, innocent girls sow seeds of doubt in the minds of believers and the unchurched alike: How could a God of love, if He exists, allow such horrible things to happen?
Adam consciously tried to destroy the works of God because he was a tool of the real enemy of God who has been trying to undo the accomplishments of Christ and His church for centuries. That’s what Satan does. Church history is filled with examples of innocent Christians being tortured and killed for their faith. It’s happening still today in the Middle East and North Africa.
But let’s go back to that nagging question: How could a God of love allow terrible things to happen to His own people? The answer is that the final chapter of the story more than makes up for what happened in the first part.
If you go to the bottom line of this real time story, Adam is now serving a life sentence for his crimes and the woman that lured Heather into human trafficking is behind bars for years. Others who were part of this system of bondage and prostitution are soon to be brought to trial.
Both Natalie and Heather have experienced what the Apostle Paul called the “Fellowship of Christ’s sufferings” (Philippians 3:10) and have come to know their Savior in a deeper and more meaningful way than they ever could before their torment. These shy, awkward, home-schooled girls have now reached out to other trafficked women and brought them hope and comfort. Many of the abused ladies who tell their stories on My God Did never went to church and weren’t looking for God, but God saw them, found them and wrapped them in His love. That is true victory.
One of the reasons that Jesus came to this Earth was to “destroy the works of the devil” (I John 3:8). We’ll see this more clearly when the final chapter of human history is written, but we can also see it at the end of Natalie and Heather’s stories.
Adam and his cohorts wanted to destroy the works of Jesus. How did that work out for them? They are either now in jail or soon will be. Natalie and Heather got their lives back and even more abundantly than before! That’s what Jesus does.
“The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).
When reading the true stories of women such as Heather and Natalie, it is very clear that Our God Did/Our God Does many wonderful things. However, at the same time it is also obvious: evil is alive and well on planet Earth.
The man called Adam in these stories wasn’t just a villain in a novel or the personification of evil, he is a real person who is a God-hater and Christ-rejecter. He targeted young Christian home-schooled girls because he felt that in doing so he was hurting God and destroying the faith of those who believe in Him.
By definition, nothing can hurt God, but these terrible acts of cruelty to young, innocent girls sow seeds of doubt in the minds of believers and the unchurched alike: How could a God of love, if He exists, allow such horrible things to happen?
Adam consciously tried to destroy the works of God because he was a tool of the real enemy of God who has been trying to undo the accomplishments of Christ and His church for centuries. That’s what Satan does. Church history is filled with examples of innocent Christians being tortured and killed for their faith. It’s happening still today in the Middle East and North Africa.
But let’s go back to that nagging question: How could a God of love allow terrible things to happen to His own people? The answer is that the final chapter of the story more than makes up for what happened in the first part.
If you go to the bottom line of this real time story, Adam is now serving a life sentence for his crimes and the woman that lured Heather into human trafficking is behind bars for years. Others who were part of this system of bondage and prostitution are soon to be brought to trial.
Both Natalie and Heather have experienced what the Apostle Paul called the “Fellowship of Christ’s sufferings” (Philippians 3:10) and have come to know their Savior in a deeper and more meaningful way than they ever could before their torment. These shy, awkward, home-schooled girls have now reached out to other trafficked women and brought them hope and comfort. Many of the abused ladies who tell their stories on My God Did never went to church and weren’t looking for God, but God saw them, found them and wrapped them in His love. That is true victory.
One of the reasons that Jesus came to this Earth was to “destroy the works of the devil” (I John 3:8). We’ll see this more clearly when the final chapter of human history is written, but we can also see it at the end of Natalie and Heather’s stories.
Adam and his cohorts wanted to destroy the works of Jesus. How did that work out for them? They are either now in jail or soon will be. Natalie and Heather got their lives back and even more abundantly than before! That’s what Jesus does.
“The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).
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