Acts 2:42 – And they
devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking
of bread and the prayers.
Philippians 1:27 – Only
let your manner of life be worthy of the Gospel of Christ, so that whether I
come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in
one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the Gospel.
Colossians
1:10 – So as to walk in the manner worthy of
the Lord fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit
1 John 1:5-7 – This is the
message we have heard from Him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in
Him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him while we walk
in darkness we lie and do not practice the truth, but if we walk in the light
as He is in the light we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of
Jesus His son cleanses us from all sin.
Today
I have confidence that I am really o.k. I am learning things daily about myself
and about how God wants me to act. The last two weeks have been a bit dry for
me but things seem to be picking up. I feel great today. God is giving me peace
about everything. I feel taken care of, satisfied, and happy about my future.
Reckon if that is what they mean by fruit in Colossians? I’ve noticed something
about prison and I imagine that it is the same at school, work, or anywhere for
that matter. Check this out – lately I’ve been meeting new people daily. All or
most of them want to come across hard and tough and like a typical prisoner.
When first meeting someone usually the typical prison lingo comes out and I have
been saying something like this to most all given the opportunity, “Yeah man, I
agree, you know one thing I’ve noticed?” They say, “What?” I say, “I’m just
starting to notice that all the answers that we are talking about are found in
the Bible and I’m just realizing after 42 years of my life that those weird
Bible banging Christians out there are on to something and I’m interested in
what it is!” They instantly switch from hard convicts to people who agree and
are also interested and ready to change their lives or they just stay away from
me because they don’t want the sickness that I have lol. I love this stuff! All
I have to do is lay it out there and you can tell if that is someone who I can
talk to inside 30 seconds or less. That’s a good thing because according to
these verses I want “fruit in my life” and to “walk in the light” and to live a
life “worthy and pleasing to the Lord”.
I want people to know that I “stand firm in my faith”. I want these
things in my life, all of them that sound like “the good stuff”. I’ve been
missing out on the good stuff for way too long and today I’m proud to have had
the opportunity to come to prison and get my head out of my butt.
Prayer: Father
God, help me to improve my life daily through reading, prayer, turning from
sin, and surrounding myself with people doing the same. Forgive me Lord for
ever trying to make it on my own.
Thoughts: A blessing
will come in the strangest forms sometimes. There is no telling how many
blessings in my life I’ve missed out on because I was running for my desires
and not God’s. It is a lot harder to screw your life up than it is to just do
the right thing and be happy. Sounds crazy but people literally beat themselves
up in life trying to figure things out on their own. All the while calling
themselves “trying”, all they have to do is “give up, let go, and let God.”
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