Prisons
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. In Acts 5, John and the apostles were placed in
prison. During the night, an angel came
and led them out of the prison. They
were set free. In Acts 12, Peter is
seized and thrown into prison. Again
Peter is guided out of prison in the middle of the night by a messenger of God. He was freed from the grasp of the King. Imagine the surprise to find the jail locked
but the prisoners gone. The prison could
not hold them. There has not been a
prison created that can hold what God has set free. If a physical prison cannot hold a person
who God has decided should go free then prisons of the mind cannot hold us
captive either. All of us find ourselves
in a cage at one time or another. The
same God who drew Peter and the apostles out of prison can set us free from the
worst kind of prisons; the prisons of fear that we have built in our mind. The
apostles were put I jail by others. Often
we put ourselves in the prisons of the mind and we choose to stay there. The
apostles were released from one prison by God only to be put in other
prisons. However, when God sets us free
mentally and spiritually, you are free indeed.
Who can ever make you go back to that cell again? God is stronger than the prisons you and I
have created and lived in for years. Now
he wants to free you from those prisons so that you do not ever need to go back
to that prison.
