Series: Seeing God More Clearly in 2020

When was the last time you had an “Aha!” moment? A revelation? An epiphany? I don’t know what you might call it, but we’ve all had a before-and-after moment when a sudden insight, a moment of truth, changed our life.

Simon Lovell was one man who had his life changed in such an Aha! moment. Simon was a professional con man. His most successful con was to convince some innocent person that he had a get-rich-quick scheme that couldn’t fail. Once his victim handed over a large wad of cash, Simon would disappear with it, never to be seen again.

One night in 1988, Simon Lovell tried this con on a new victim. Everything went smoothly until it was time for Simon to leave with the man’s money. The man must have realized that he had been conned, because he …