Sometimes when I’m alone on the weekends and I have no
plans, I get restless. I get cabin
fever. I don’t like to be cooped up for
very long. I have to go out; even if it’s
just to get gas or a donut. The idea of
being in prison for that many years doesn’t even fit in my head. Nor can I even imagine living in the most
offensive, grueling and cut-off conditions that Mandela lived. The majority of us will never have to step
into a prison cell; not even for a visit.
We live in the greatest country in the world where democracy and freedom
are the truest and highest values we uphold.
We are free. We are free to
choose our schooling, our professions and our life mates. We are free to choose where to live. We are free to do as we please. We live free and die free. But the irony of this world’s freedom doesn’t
escape me as a Christian. We have incredible freedoms,
yet we are imprisoned, trapped, and bound by our worldly pursuits, habits and doings. We are deceived when we don’t see that these small
choices can bring great consequences. They appear to have minor importance at first - but choices that little by
little, day to day, contribute to a loss of sensitivity; thereby allowing us to
do worse things. Those things we never
would’ve imagined ourselves doing or falling prey to. Those things that are offensive to God and that
would’ve been distasteful to us a few years or even months ago. Those things that are called sin. Our lives are then fraught with the grueling
conditions we have set for ourselves – shame, anger, stress, and pain; and we live
lonely and cut-off from God; not by Him, but because we feel ashamed and unworthy.
Thankfully, IT IS NOT TOO LATE. “God strengthened him once more, and he
toppled the pillars of the Philistine house, killing thousands.’ Judges 16:30.
It wasn’t too late for Samson, and it’s not too late for us. We don’t have to live in the prison of sin. We can be different by the power of the Holy
Spirit when we surrender to Him. The
bible lists Samson as a man of faith. I
thank God that in His strength, I can be counted as a woman of faith.
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