Beautiful Things

… And I thank God every day
For the girl He sent my way
But I know the things He gives me
He can take away

Lyrics by Benson Boone, “Beautiful Things” 2024

Some people move through life with an awareness that what God gives is fragile.
What is given can be taken away as quickly as it arrives.

Others choose defiance.
They spit in the face of God and abuse every gift placed in their care.

Such is the case of Allan Alexander Amador Cervantes.

Allan repeatedly degraded and devalued the women God placed in his life.
His toxicity did not stop there. It spread into the bodies and souls of the family entrusted to him.

Allan himself admitted, in multiple ways and on multiple occasions, that his lineage is toxic.
As the oldest child in a family abandoned by its father, he carried the greatest responsibility.
Instead of interrupting the damage, he transmitted it, into siblings, into family systems, and into the friends God gave him.

He now claims they share his hatred.
They deny this.

It raises an unsettling question:
Whose toxicity produced Kenno’s cancer?

“I lived long enough to witness what was unfolding: a disaster of Biblical proportion.
I warned him more than once: live your life with passionate leadership.

At Café Exquisito, Allan scoffed.
He dismissed my words as worthless.

What I did not know then, because Allan was lying, was that my appeals were already too late.
He had already picked a fight with God, determined to win something that amounted to nothing.”

— Survivor of Allan’s fight with God

Allan’s fight continues.

Allan still exposes family, friends, and women he uses to his toxicity.
He recruits them into his hatred of a woman he violated and later failed to silence.

We are commanded to face those we have violated before we approach God:

“Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.“ Matthew 5:23-24 (NIV)

Allan refuses obedience.

This man could read every book ever written on leadership and remain unchanged.
The commands were already given two thousand years ago.
If he will not follow them, no modern author can rescue him.

Prayer without obedience is not faith.
Self-comparison to Job is not humility.

God’s word does not require reinterpretation.
It requires compliance.