As a hard-nosed, self-assured investigative reporter and legal editor for the Chicago Tribune Newspaper, Lee did not believe in the existence of God. His only goal was to do whatever brought him most pleasure. As you can imagine, such a self-focused lifestyle without boundaries meant he lived an immoral life of drinking and partying.
However, all his pleasure-seeking left him angry and unfulfilled. Often his anger would spill over at home. One time, while arguing with his wife, he got so angry that he punched a hole in the wall while his five-year-old daughter was watching. She got so scared that whenever Dad came home drunk or in a bad mood, she would collect her toys, take them to her room and close the door. Things weren’t good.
One day, Lesley, Lee’s wife told him unexpectedly, that she had become a follower of Jesus. Another woman in their condominium complex had invited her to church and after several months, Lesley had committed her life to Jesus.
Lee was furious. His first thought was of divorce. He did not want to live with a “Christian.” But the observable change in his wife’s life made him curious. His bad behavior had not changed, but Lesley had become a better person, wife, and mother.
Although this circumstantial evidence was not enough for an investigative reporter to convince him, Lee began applying his research skills to the situation at hand. After an intense, almost two-year long search for the facts about Jesus and Christianity, he concluded that it took more faith to maintain his atheism then to accept the many historically proven facts about Jesus.
He was reminded of a verse of Scripture given to him earlier: “But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God…” His analytical mind translated this into an equation: Believe + Receive = Become. He fell to his knees in prayer, confessed in detail the sordid things he had done and got up a new man. He changed so much, that his young daughter told her Sunday School Teacher, “I want what changed my father!”
Maybe you are where Lee was! You don’t believe there is a God—or you say He can’t be known. Let your doubts take you on a search for Him. If you seek Him with honesty and openness—He will be found! That’s an iron-clad promise! (Isaiah 55:6-7; Hebrews 11:6)
You can view the video of Lee telling his story in his own words here.
His story has also been made into a movie called “The Case for Christ”
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