Selling My Soul by Sherri L. Lewis

Author:Sherri L. Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2013-01-26T05:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

My thoughts were still reeling when I got into my car and started it up. How could this man have one of the largest churches in the city and not even believe in God? I thought about the fact that I had gotten saved at his church and had built a foundation of my Christian knowledge there. My life had been changed by his ministry, and yet, he was practically an atheist. Being a pastor was a profession for him—a very lucrative one at that.

That explained how he could lie, scheme and not care about how lives were affected by his actions. All he cared about was the prestige and money. And he would do whatever it took to maintain them. How could God let him get away with that? Why didn’t God strike him with lightning, or let him get hit by a bus, or be killed by an angry swarm of bees?

One last question drifted across my mind that did me in. Why did my mother have cancer and Bishop Walker was free and healthy to destroy people’s lives? Where was the justice in that? My mother never hurt anyone. In fact, she’d devoted her life to helping people. She did everything she could to provide a good life for me and my sister and took care of every stray kid in the neighborhood. No child would ever starve, be unclothed or homeless as long as she was alive.

Part of what she said was right. She had lived all her life being good, but yet Bishop Walker, who had made a covenant with the devil, was prospering, and she was dying.

I felt like God stepped into my mind to save me from the perilous thought train I was allowing myself to ride on. Psalm 37 slipped into my spirit.

When I pulled up at the house, I walked into my living room and grabbed my Bible off the coffee table. I sat on the couch and turned to the scripture, reading it over and over. God assured me that I didn’t need to fret about Bishop and his evil doings. One day he would get his due reward. I was actually afraid for him what that would look like.

As far as Moms was concerned, she had abused her body—pure and simple. She had smoked cigarettes all her life and lung cancer was a natural consequence of that. No amount of being good to kids could reverse that.

Even if it were breast cancer or some other cancer that nothing she did would cause it, sickness was just a consequence of man being fallen. When Adam was perfect and sinless, his body wasn’t susceptible to sickness. Once sin entered, our bodies were fair game. Which was why Jesus went to the cross to reverse the curse so we could experience divine health again.

But how could I get my mother to accept and believe that? Healing was available to her, but she didn’t want to have anything to do with it. And

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