Guided Prison Time

Why are you here? No, I am not asking what law you broke; that really doesn’t matter anymore, at least not to me. I’m asking why are you here in prison; what are you doing here today, right now, to change? Are you just waiting out your sentence watching the days, months, and years of your life slip by so you can one day rejoin a society that you won’t even recognize? Or are you devoted to making a change within yourself? Is it a plan of yours to commit to altering who you are so that you never again find yourself back inside these prison walls, razor wire, and sliding steel doors? Do you have a productive plan for your release? Or will you, like so many others, hope for the best and deal with what comes?

Now let me ask you some really important questions: Is Jesus Christ involved in your plans? Have you contemplated whether He has allowed you to be here, and if so, what His reasons are? The odds are that if you were doing things which are contrary to God’s law—and face the facts: you knew they were because everyone has sinned—He had a hand in sitting you down. This is okay, though. Jesus didn’t put you behind bars just to punish you. He wants to change you. He is hoping to teach you. He teaches us in so many ways, through people, circumstances, His word, His Spirit, parables and yes even prison walls.