How many times I’ve heard the news before?
When prisoner or prisoners got some of the guards pregnant?
When some of the prison’s employees helped inmates escaped? When prisoners were
able to get help smuggling drugs or contrabands because of some corrupted
prison staff?
I see and hear that pressure as I work in the prison.
Inmates pressuring newly-booked ones, especially those who are incarcerated for
the first time. Asking for favors to be done for them or else…
But I don’t need to go to work just to see all these things…I
just need to look outside my home and see and hear how much the things of this
world are polluting our minds and heart. It is sad when the prison that is
supposed to help the inmates change doesn’t occur. It is sad when Christians
should be making changes in this place instead of conforming to it.
I know…the change should start…
In me…
Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!- Psalm 80:19 (ESV)
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity,
whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with
him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the
lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.- Isaiah 57:15 (ESV)
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.- James 4:8 (ESV)
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but
having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit
their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and
wander off into myths.- 2 Timothy 4:3-4 (ESV)
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;- Psalm 19:7 (ESV)
Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon
him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the
unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.- Isaiah 55:6-7 (ESV)
