Why Leave the Vengeance Up to God?

What did a terrorist, a slave trader, and a violent gang leader all have in common? A miraculous, life-changing encounter with Jesus Christ — but only because someone refused to give up on them first.

There is a person in your life whose name just crossed your mind. Someone you’ve written off. Someone you stopped praying for. Someone whose worst chapter you’ve mistaken for their last. Someone God isn’t finished with yet.

Ordained minister Sandi Bird Aldridge has lived on both sides of this message. Born the survivor of a failed abortion, a victim of abuse and trafficking, a mother whose son sits in prison — she has had every reason to harden her heart. Instead, she chose something harder and more powerful than bitterness. She chose to trust the Judge of all the earth.

In these pages you will meet Saul of Tarsus, John Newton, Nicky Cruz, Chuck Colson, Malcolm X, and C.S. Lewis — men the world had every reason to write off, whose transformations changed history. And you will be asked the question that every one of their stories demands: What if someone had cut their story short?

Practical, honest, and written from inside the miracle, this book shows you what forgiveness actually looks like — moment by moment, decision by decision — and why leaving the vengeance up to God is not weakness. It is the most powerful thing you will ever do.

Don’t cut the story short. You don’t know what God is about to do.