Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Tough Question

I read a book recently that I highly suggest. The book is The Story of My Life, An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky. The girl who wrote this book is 18 years old and is a refuge here in America with her mom.
After losing her leg, losing most of her family, and living as a refuge and slave in Pakistan, the girl reaches a moment where she is at the end of herself. This is what she prays to God: "Enough. Oh, my dear God. Get me out of this. God-darling, forgive me. I cant hold up all this weight by myself anymore. Please! I'll hold up most of it, but you hold some of it. Whatever I've done wrong in the past, I cant change that now. Between you and me, let's say that what's done is done. All I can do now about the past is ask you to forgive me. I plead with you. All I can do is promise to be good, to remember you from now on always. I relinquish all of myself to you -- no more resistance. Oh, please, God, help me. I cant hold up this weight anymore."
Then she speaks of "feeling" different. She starts to pray all the Muslim prayers, but she also comes to God and talks to him as a child and cries out to him.

Ok, the question is, is this girl a child of God? Is she "saved."

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