Today is Tuesday, June the 11th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum.

Jess Morgan is the pastor of Green Pond Bible Church in Rockaway, New Jersey. He and his family were on the first week

of his sabbatical vacationing in Maine. According to his six-year-old daughter, Lucy, it was the

best week of her life. Then tragedy struck. The kids were playing badminton when the racket being

used by her 10-year-old brother came apart and the shaft flew into her

skull. She was rushed to a hospital but died four days later. Four weeks earlier, she asked her

mother how to be with God and be saved. Her mother explained the gospel. Then Lucy went into her room

where she trusted in Christ. She wrote in her prayer

journal, God is so amazing, and he is the true God, and he created everything, and he died on the

cross for our sins. Now, as her father wrote, she is with Jesus. What is your first response

upon reading this story? Mine was to ask how God could allow such a

precious girl to die so tragically, then to ask how he could allow a pastor and his family

to go through such heartbreak. Only then did I thank the Lord for his providence in helping

Lucy trust personally in him a few weeks earlier and then document her new faith

in ways her family will treasure forever.

And only then did I thank God for parents who would tell their daughter's story on Fox News

so the gospel could be proclaimed around the globe.

Every person who is drawn closer to Jesus through Lucy's faith will extend her

ministry until the Lord returns. And every person who reads of her faith through her family's

courageous compassion will see the difference Jesus makes in a crisis when he is Lord. As the

world paused to remember the 80th anniversary of D-Day last week, there was a telling instance of amnesia, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The religious significance of the event was largely ignored.

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