Kim Phuc Phan Thi- A portrait of God's Grace
Remember that infamous photo of the Vietnam war of the little girl running injured from a horrific napalm attack? That girl was Kim and a decade after that photo she turned to Christ.
She discovered the Gods of the religion she was brought up in were distant, unlike Christ they weren't with her, didn't relate to her suffering and were ultimately just the figment of cultural imagination.
Kim understandably grew up angry about what happened to her, sadly noone wanted to be around her. But one day while she was in a library she started reading through a New Testament and rather than hearing the usual works based spiel, she learnt that Christ had suffered in our place and no works could get us to heaven.
After attending a church service in Saigon, she came to Christ and stood up to take the Gospel call, mere miles from where she had been the victim of a napalm bomb as a child.
What an amazing story of God's grace, and I'm sure Kim knew Christ was with her as that poor little girl suffering from a napalm attack and was with her after 50 years of skin grafts, she knew Christ was not alien to our suffering.
She discovered the Gods of the religion she was brought up in were distant, unlike Christ they weren't with her, didn't relate to her suffering and were ultimately just the figment of cultural imagination.
Kim understandably grew up angry about what happened to her, sadly noone wanted to be around her. But one day while she was in a library she started reading through a New Testament and rather than hearing the usual works based spiel, she learnt that Christ had suffered in our place and no works could get us to heaven.
After attending a church service in Saigon, she came to Christ and stood up to take the Gospel call, mere miles from where she had been the victim of a napalm bomb as a child.
What an amazing story of God's grace, and I'm sure Kim knew Christ was with her as that poor little girl suffering from a napalm attack and was with her after 50 years of skin grafts, she knew Christ was not alien to our suffering.
