Crossroads

Locked up, gone to the Big House, In my own concrete jungle, in prison. One thing that I can't get over is seeing people arrested carried off to jail and they act like it's no big deal. So how do I see this, MSNBC and Discovery Channel of course. My father in law and my brother in law work in law inforcements as well as several of my former students, but I Praise God have never had to set foot unwillingly into a jail.

In watching Locked-Up and DEA and things like that, I see so many people being arrested. Usually it is for drugs, and they act like it's no big deal going to prison. Prison: a place of confinement for those convicted by or awaiting trial. Being held against your will for something you did that was agains the law. Imagine every freedom taken away from you. As I blog, I am listening to Barlow Girl, drinking a Diet Pepsi Max (what a great drink) looking into The Upper Room as the media runs for Crossroads... I can turn and look out my window at the folks playing basketball, and very soon I'll go get into my truck and drive to my home and see my family... Freedom.

Whether we want to admit it or not, we have all slipped into prison. Some decision that has held us agianst our will. If we have taken the name of Christian, our desire should be to become Christ-like. If this is not our desire, we're imprisoned by something. Fear, laziness, pride, ego... but I think Fear would kind of hold all of these in it's title.

We are told in the Bible (that is the Holy Bible not what Oprah is pushing) that we are to fear God. Fear of God isn't the thought of God getting us for doing wrong, it is all about respect for who He is. You know R-E-S-P-E-C-T find out what it means to me. God also tells us in His word that He has not given us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and of love and of self discipline... That is what God has given us.

On the tv show, one guy has the layout of the prison tattooed on his body. (wow, that's a onetime thing) but they use his body to gain knowledge of how to escape the prison. God has given us His word, to study, learn and make part of who we are. These are the instructions for life, and eternity. That is how we escape... know God and His wonder and allow Him to break you free from a life of prison.

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Crossroads