Hello fellow readers! I hope you have been reading!
Today I would like to share about another book I got from
Book Sneeze called Covenant Child by
Terri Blackstock. I have to admit that I almost didn’t finish this book because
I got bogged down in the negative events that kept happening to the characters.
But in the end, I am glad I finished it. When I took a step back and compared
it to the life of a sinner saved by Jesus’ grace, it all began to take shape in
my mind. Let me explain.
This book follows the life of Kara and Lizzie, twin girls
that are heirs to the largest fortunes ever known when at the age of three,
their father and grandparents are tragically killed in a plane crash. They are
then snatched from the loving arms of their stepmother and sent to live with
their other grandparents. They are only
interested in the money these little girls will get when they turn eighteen. They grow up never knowing the truth and
being constantly abused and mistreated learning to fend for themselves and
getting into all kinds of trouble. All
the while being told lies about their stepmother, Amanda, who is biding her
time, taking care of the girl’s inheritance and just waiting for the day that
Kara and Lizzie can come home to her and receive what is rightfully theirs.
This book made me think of the story of the prodigal son in
the Bible. The boy took the inheritance
that his father gave him and squandered it but instead of coming back to the
loving arms of his father, he refuses to admit that he is better off at home
and starts eating the slop of the pigpen.
He was at the lowest of the low just like these girls. Once he got past the devil’s lies and
realized that his Father truly did love him, he was able to go back and receive
all that he was destined to have.
It is the same way with our relationship with Christ. No matter what we have done in life, no
matter how far down we have sunk, God is right there, like Amanda in the story,
guarding what is meant to be ours, just waiting for us to get past the devil’s
lies and see that he has our best interest at heart. God will always take care
of us if you will allow him to.
This is not a book you can put down halfway, you have to
stick it out and make it to the end of the book to know the whole story.
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