Hey you guys, remember me writing about tumbling into a
valley? That’s not soo long ago, surely you remember it! Well anyway, I mentioned being imprisoned in
my own body, quite a phrase, eh? That trip really did a number on me
physically. Not only was I crippled up but it was kind of hard, okay I’ll
admit, sometimes mighty hard to find food that my body wanted to tolerate,
which left me feeling…UHHH when I got home. (Ya, before to.)
Then I got inspired to read in this real old book called Springs
in the Valley. It’s so ancient I don’t even have the original cover on it,
but the author was Mrs. Somebody-Or-Other-Cowman.
Ever hear of a lady called Madam Guyon? She must have been a
real sweetheart cuz when she was imprisoned in a castle at Vincennes she said:
“It seems as though I were a little bird whom the Lord has placed in a cage, and
that I have nothing to do but sing.” I like that thought. I think many of you
can verify that suffering often does bring us closer to God and we can hardly
stop praising Him for all the love He is bestowing on us.
Oh, I know, I know you have things to do and places to go,
but please, let me throw in another thought or two. The famous John Bunyan also
found prison a blessing in disguise. It was there that Scriptures, that meant
nothing to him before, shone with new light and ‘Jesus was never more real and
apparent’ than there. I envy him.
So when you are praying for the persecuted
around the world, don’t only ask God to protect them, but that He will be
with them in a special way.
