I’ve not seen the despair of the drug trade and organized crime up close, but the book White Soul seems to portray it accurately.
I believe Brandt Dodson does an excellent job at showing how easy it is for the Christian to be caught up in the world.
The blurb on the back of the book:
Undercover agent Ron Ortega has a decision to make… do the right thing, or the desired thing?
Too often we choose the desired thing which can have dire consequences to our life.
As an undercover agent, Ron has to make his subjects believe he is one of them. But how far is too far? Ron came close to going too far.
I’m reading the book of Judges now and I see how easy it was for the Israelites to fall into the habits and customs of the people around them. And each time, they faced terrible circumstances. But each time they were restored by God’s grace.
I like this verse from the Apostle Paul:
Romans 7:18-20 (New International Version)
18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
I’m glad to know that my place in Heaven is not determined by how good I am, because I cannot be good enough. Even the Apostle Paul struggled with the evil in his life as evidenced by what he wrote above.
No, my place in Heaven is secured by a man who purchased that place for me by taking on my sin while on the cross.
At the end of the chapter 7, Paul says:
21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Who will rescue me from this body of death? JESUS
Read White Soul if you like gritty crime novels.
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April 3, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Brandt Dodson
Thank you for your comments on White Soul.
I wrote this novel because I, too, struggle with desires that stem from the sinful nature.
All too often we find well meaning Christians who want to castigate others for having fallen, when a simple look in the mirror (Bible) will show that all of us are fallible.
That is why we are warned to be alert and to put on the full armor of God.
Brandt Dodson