In a recent interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight shared how an encounter with God during a season of personal strife changed his life for the better.
He told Carlson — “I was in a lot of trouble at one point. I had some problems, and I was really suffering for many reasons. My career was in flux at that time, and lots of things were going on at the time. My relationship to my kids and my wife.”
Voight, 82, noted that he was on the floor saying, “It’s so difficult,” in which he heard an audible voice who told him, “It’s supposed to be difficult.”
Prior to that moment, Voight acknowledged that he was not a person “who really prays with the idea that anybody’s listening.”
But at that point he said — “Now I know that we’re covered. Everything we think, everything we say … everything, you’re known. Like they say God knows every bird that falls; this is us too. We all are known. We’re being observed and helped and loved. And we’re expected to get up and do battle, do something, do what’s right … whatever it is.”
Voight made a case for the fear of God in keeping one’s life on track saying…“I have fear of the Lord … I am afraid of offending God. Because God is everything. God is all these beautiful things, beauty, everything. And how can I live up to that? I need a lot of help. I think that is the fear of the Lord. It keeps you on track.”