In God We by LiL Bay B Gz Us

A Modern Parable of Redemption

What happens when three unfinished words change everything?

When Marcus Ellison walks into a government records office holding nothing but a slip of paper with three incomplete words — IN GOD WE — he sets off a chain of events no bureaucrat, lawmaker, or authority figure can explain away. A quiet man with eyes older than his years. A phrase with no period. A truth that doesn't need permission.

In God We is a gripping modern parable that dares to ask: What if faith was never meant to be finished by men?

Perfect for readers of:

• Inspirational literary fiction
• Christian spiritual thrillers
• Philosophical redemption stories
• Books that make you think long after the last page

Whether you're searching for faith-based fiction that challenges the system, a redemption story with depth, or a spiritual novel that reads like a thriller, In God We delivers a reading experience that is equal parts literary, provocative, and soul-stirring.

This is not a church book. This is a courtroom for the soul.

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Excerpt from In God We © Copyright 2026 LiL Bay B Gz Us

CHAPTER ONE
The Weight of Words

PART I: THE PAPER

The paper was ordinary. Marcus Ellison held it between his thumb and forefinger, feeling the slight texture of standard office stock—twenty-pound weight, probably recycled, the kind that comes in reams of five hundred and costs less than a cup of coffee. Too thin to matter. Too plain to be feared. The fluorescent lights of the Office of Public Records hummed overhead, casting that particular shade of institutional white that made everything look slightly jaundiced, slightly unreal. What unsettled Registrar Patricia Chen was not what the paper said, but what it did not. She had worked in this building for seventeen years. Seventeen years of processing birth certificates, death certificates, business licenses, tax liens, property deeds—the endless documentation of human existence translated into administrative language. She had developed, over nearly two decades, an instinct for irregularity. A sixth sense for the documents that would cause trouble. The misspelled names that would require correction. The incomplete forms that would bounce back. The fraudulent claims that would need investigation. This document triggered none of those alarms. And that was precisely what troubled her. There was no demand written there. No claim of ownership. No request for authority or jurisdiction or legal standing. No reference to statute or code or precedent. Only a phrase—unfinished, almost careless in its brevity, written in neat block letters with what appeared to be a simple ballpoint pen. IN GOD WE. That was all. No period. No continuation. Just those three words, floating on the page like a question that had forgotten how to end itself. Patricia read it twice. On the third reading, she slowed, her eyes tracing each letter as if the meaning might reveal itself through repetition. The phrase did not accuse. It did not instruct. It did not demand or plead or argue. It simply rested on the page, as though it had been waiting longer than the building itself…