Introduction

Father Knows Best Meets the Exorcist

 

“Today most people aren’t going to raise an antisocial sociopath like I did, yet they will face adversity. God is loving, faithful, and merciful… He’ll bring you through the worst and turn it into something valuable.”

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Robert Foust – Inspiring Real Life

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My son, Aaron Foust, at 26 years old, was executed for the crime of murder by the State of Texas on April 28, 1999. My Heavenly Father answered my prayer for Aaron when he gave his heart to Christ while on Death Row.

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“Mr. Aaron Foust, you will be executed in a week from today, is that correct,” “Yeah,” “And how do you feel about that?” “Fine, I feel good about it.”

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Aaron’s thoughts before he committed the murder, “I want to get this done.” “I pretty much more or less I had made up my mind to kill him.”

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Even when I stood outside the high brick prison walls of the execution unit in Huntsville, Texas, the Lord was giving me an unbelievable peace. I knew my son Aaron was inside, strapped down to a table that looked like a cross. In the veins of each arm were IV needles that were inserted. At 6:00 p.m., lethal chemicals would end his life. I had the joy of knowing my son would not suffer anymore. He would soon be in the arms of his Heavenly Father, who had done so much to protect him.

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It may seem funny to some, but I now think of April 28, 1999, as his birthday. Not the day he died, but the day he started life in Heaven. Praise God!

No matter how bad things seem, God is capable, faithful, merciful, and loving. He cares about us, loves us more than our earthly fathers, and will bring us through our worst times.

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I am at peace knowing I did my best to raise Aaron in Christ. I taught him to know that evil and doing wrong will have disastrous consequences. I explained to him that he didn’t want that type of destructive life. Yet Aaron chose the life I warned him about, and I will share with you the reasons why.

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I want to begin by sharing a picture with you, one of my greatest memories, of myself and Aaron. It was taken on a mountain trail in the Smoky Mountains while on a family vacation in the third week of October 1975.

My son was three years old at the time, and he walked, ran, and played along the way until he became tired in the afternoon. I put him on my shoulders, and he was happy to be riding along on Daddy. Soon exhaustion overtook him, and he laid his head on mine and went to sleep, content and knowing I would carry him safely on my shoulders.

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Our heavenly Father is like this too. He knows we tire through the enormity of stress trying in our own efforts to figure things out. He loves you unconditionally, and He says, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28)

When you tire from the weight of all your burdens, and you feel as though you can’t go on, that’s when you put your trust in Him. He shoulders your burdens and gives you His peace as you rest, trusting in His way through.

My story begins at an early age when I saw things in my son that scared and worried me. I feared for his life because of his aggressive and strange ways. He did odd things which were apparent even as early as five years old. Once I realized I couldn’t change him, I knew my only hope was to rely on God completely. And that was the one thing I did do right; I trusted God.