Wesley Huff (Apologetics Canada) has been a valuable resource for me. I really enjoy both historicity and literature and he is kind of an expert on both. Sometimes I hear things on the ground or on the internet and my vague awareness of history is just enough for me to go, wait a minute, that’s not quite right. However, I can seldom fully articulate why something might be untrue!

That’s my more academic side. I do love to dabble in some intellectual rabbit holes that actually do have some solid answers at the bottom of them. However, something I also really appreciate is simply people’s lived lives, their testimonies, their struggles. For those who don’t know, Wes Huff was paralyzed as a child and the prognosis was not good, but he eventually had a spontaneous healing, a miraculous recovery. Flash forward to modern times he’s now a husband, a dad, and at the height of his popularity, his wife has a difficult pregnancy and goes on bed rest, with small children he needs to care for. Then his child suffers a medical crisis that thankfully is now resolved, but she then proceeds to get hit by a car! Yikes! Thankfully she heals and recovers from that experience.

These are huge stressors for a parent. To make matters worse, the internet, or rather the darker side of human nature is also a thing. People are often not kind. Some of them make a sport out of abusing others, an unpleasant aspect of now being able to hide behind a keyboard. So on top of dealing with some challenging life circumstances in general, he has likely had the pleasure of dealing with what I call, the peanut gallery.

That’s just what I’ve observed and what he has briefly touched on in some of his interviews. I just mention it because all of that life stuff, all of those struggles and how we respond, how we walk through them with the Lord’s wisdom and grace, is a ministry all by itself. It matters, perhaps even more than our knowledge of history, more than our formal understanding of historicity or apologetics.

Something that has really helped me in life is rather than saying “why me” or plunging into fear and despair when life comes at us fast, is to instead say, how can God be glorified in this situation? And to then take it one step farther, I have no idea what God’s purpose is in this situation but I trust Him and it’s going to be good.

Sometimes the older you get, the more examples you have of that actually playing out in life and being true.