And Who is Our Savior? - R F Lambert

For God so loved the world that He gave us His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. Indeed God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that he might be its Savior.

John 3:16

This is the story of a soldier who, having lost his wife and daughter to the brutality of terrorism, joins an elite group of embittered mercenary soldiers that targets terrorists all over the world. The loss of his family has hardened him to the cruelty he sees around him, until he encounters a fellow-soldier who is even more cold-blooded and sadistic than he is.

His colleague’s cruelty and utter callousness towards the value of human life and dignity shocks him into conscious-ness. He kills his colleague as he watches him brutalizing his pregnant girlfriend and then takes the tortured young woman back to her parents. Being with child, she and her infant are rejected by family and the soldier reluctantly takes both under his protection.

Together mother and daughter weather many storms under the watchful eye of their guardian. But as he journeys with them, he finds himself changing from the hardened, thoughtless, emotionless killing machine, he once was, to the compassionate, almost vulnerable man he has become. Once mercenary and committed to killing purely for money, he is now irrevocably devoted to protecting these two helpless souls.

© "Deccan Chronicle" (dated March 4, 2004). Reprinted with permission.

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