PRISON GUARD

When you are a prisoner of something, you are held captive to it! You are locked in to all that it makes you do, and you have to abide by those guidelines and rules to exist.
God has made us prisoners~~~~in a wonderful way~~~~of His marvelous Grace! It's almost impossible not to express it, if we are truly His prisoners too! That Grace enables us to persevere when tribulation comes.
He doesn't send tribulation to cause us pain either.
No! He sends it to grow us in wisdom and stature, and to make us grow as stronger men and women of Christian character. We have to persevere to make it through too! When we do, the result will be that we have hope, and hope will not disappoint us!
Yea!
The really neat thing though, is when Christ said these things, He stressed that hope wouldn't disappoint us because God's love has been poured out on us all, in our hearts through the Holy Spirit!
Talk about a prison guard!
Becky