I was doing some editing and felt moved by the Spirit to share this today.
Scene: Ameritech’s Division Chief/Senior Agent Jeff Davis and his wife Mickey (Jefferson and MacKenzie) chatting in their bedroom about a horrendous case Jeff has been working on.
“What are you staring at, Jeff?” she asked, reaching up to smooth down some of her hair.
He pulled her to him and kissed her softly. “I was looking at my wife and thinking about how grateful I am to have her in my life and to have her as the mother of my children, and to have her right here near me where I can talk to her and love her.”
“Oh, honey, what has you so sentimental?”
He sighed. “My job I guess. Remember the client who’d been poisoned a few weeks ago, up in Montana?”
She nodded. “Yeah, the guy who owned that big theme park, right?”
“Yep. Well, Agent Owens went undercover and got the evidence needed to prove that he had indeed been poisoned with arsenic. It was the wife getting revenge for her husband having an affair. He slept with an employee, she found out, and instead of confronting him, she began poisoning him slowly. He’s gonna survive, and his wife has been arrested. The whole episode was so dark, though. It really makes me grateful for the love and wholesomeness that is our marriage.”
Mickey nodded at her husband encouraging him on, realizing his need to talk about it.
“The more I see, the more I learn. In so many cases and in all of those crime cases you see on TV, the real ones I mean, there is absolutely one thing that would have kept all of those horrible things from taking place. I mean, in most of those cases, it’s a beautiful start; a couple falls in love, they have a happy wedding, they have children, not necessarily in that correct order, but still, in all of those cases it seems like a beautiful beginning. But then one of the spouses strays. Or one gets mean, sometimes because of the stress of finances, or, alcohol or drug addictions. But finally, they cheat or some of them fight and become abusers. Then there’s divorce proceedings and then there’s a fight over custody or child support and what began as a beautiful love story turns very ugly, full of hatred and violence.”
He stopped and sighed. “Even if the bad stuff, like the horrific murders doesn’t start right then, then it starts through the children who grew up in that bad situation.”
“And so,” Mickey began, “what have you learned? What is the one thing that would have stopped all the ugliness?”
Jeff sighed. “Well, you know I’m gonna say God. But people don’t get it, they don’t understand when we just say, ‘things would be different if there was God in their lives.’ It’s what God gives to us. The rules He gives us to live by. If those people had merely followed just the simple ten commandments, all of that evil would be held at bay. No lying. No cheating. No stealing. No adultery. Honor your parents. Don’t want what you can’t have. Honor the Sabbath and turn your hearts to God on at least that day. Don’t be so disrespectful as to use God’s name in an angry curse. Don’t worship idols, like money, or celebrities, or porn or fantasies. And of course, the first and really most important, worship only the one true God. But I mean, even if you’re not religious and you don’t want any part of the first four commandments, just keeping the other six rules would have prevented every single case I’ve ever seen or heard about. God makes it so easy. He doesn’t give us those rules to make life hard, but to make it beautiful and filled with love and joy. He knows what He’s doing.”
Mickey smiled. “Jeff, that was beautifully put. Next time you’re asked to give your testimony, you should say what you just said.”
He smiled and shrugged. “I just want everyone else to have the same joy and beautiful marriage that we have.”
Excerpt is from Book #14 Such A Time As This-In Jesus' Name which isn't finished yet, but I'm about to put up in a series of five chapters at a time! Check back soon!
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