Faith in Fiction. As a Christian and Amish Suspense author, one of the key points I want to come through in every story that I write is God’s love and forgiveness to all. It is the greatest story ever written by the Creator of every thought.
Whether the story is about something the hero or heroine have gone through in their lives that shakes their faith or has them wondering how a loving God could allow such awful things to happen, as in Ambush in the Mountains where the heroine is caught up in human trafficking and the hero is battling his own darkness after losing someone he loved to the war. God is there with them in the midst of their doubts and their hopelessness.
Psalm 28:7-8 says, The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
Or if I’m writing a story where the protagonists come face-to-face with true evil straight from Satan himself as in The Last to Know. Even in that type of darkness, there’s hope as John 14:27 proclaims; Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
No matter what spiritual warfare might be coming at the hero and heroine of a story, there is always God’s light shining throughout the pages restoring faith and softening hearts.
As Christian writers we are called to shine His light into the darkness whether it’s in the world around us on the pages of our books that spotlight Him to those who may not know the one true God.
Mary
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