Comments on: Imparting a word

By: nopm

nopm — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:29:20 +0000

Perhaps you are right — I thought the Joseph reference probably indicated a different end.

Mike

By: Karen O

Karen O — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:02:00 +0000

By “contentment with our situation”, I hope you know I mean finding our contentment in God, & in being where He has placed us.

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By: Karen O

Karen O — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:58 +0000

Mike – Maybe finding contentment in our situations is the “new and beautiful thing”?

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By: TimA

TimA — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:57:05 +0000

Today I prayed for this young inmate. I asked God to speak to his heart at least one more time to remind him of the truth you shared to draw him to complete repentance – agreement with God that his sin should be hated, and turned away from. He has the opportunity to lay up just as much “treasure in heaven” as we do out side the bars.

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By: nopm

nopm — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:15:06 +0000

Good article, but there is one aspect I wonder about.

You say, “Every day he trusts God is real life, and something good is going on behind the deceptive sameness. One day it will erupt into the visible, as God brings about a new and beautiful thing when the time is right. We talked about Joseph the Patriarch.”

I understand this to mean that the inmate should live in expectation of something more than his/her current circumstances in this life and when that something happens he/she will see that it is all worthwhile. The thing I wonder about is why do we look beyond trust in God? Why are we not simply satisfied with His love? Why must there be more? Why can’t the grass be greener where I am right now so that I don’t have to keep looking over the fence? I need to preach this to myself.

Mike

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