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TITLE: The King Beats the Ace | Previous Challenge Entry
By Kevin S. Weir
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His evil eyes bored into me as we faced each other across the small table under a not-very-successful light-bulb. In spite of the light’s poor efforts, I had a sense of the darkness hemming me in and possessing me. Even in the gloom, I knew this old man’s face. The Lord of the Flies, the Father of Lies, the Prince of the Power of the Air.
Satan!
I had played this game with the devil many times before. I had always lost. He had me in a stranglehold. Each time I set out to clean up my life, something would happen to make me slide back into the mess of drugs and crime that I had been in for the past ten years.
A Christian friend had urged me to turn my life over to Jesus. “You can’t take on the Prince of Darkness in your own strength. You aren’t fighting a battle against flesh and blood. This is a spiritual war. Whether you knew it or not, when you let your life take this turn, you sold out to Satan. You can only fight a supernatural battle with supernatural weapons. You need Jesus on your side.”
As I sat at the table, I looked at my cards. Life experience told me that the ace was the highest scorer in the pack. Let me go with what I knew. My hand hovered over the card with the black spade in the middle of it. I slid the card half-way out of the deck.
“Play the king,” said a small voice in my head. Where did that come from?
“God, if that’s you, then please say it again.”
“Play the King—the King of Kings.”
I played the King of Hearts.
In an instant, the room was flooded with light so intense that I had to shield my eyes. The old man cowered in a corner. I had the sense of the presence of someone great and powerful. And infinitely good.
“I’ll leave you now, until another time,” the devil hissed.
This threat was supposed to strike fear into my heart, but I felt no fear—I had Jesus in my life.
When I looked again, the old man had gone and I was surrounded by angels. As the brightness in the room subsided, I realized with joy and gratitude that my life had been turned around. Satan no longer had dominion in my life.
I was a child of God.
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