IMPRISONED

Handcuffed, imprisoned to the situation you are currently in.  It may be a circumstance that you put yourself in or it may be something out of your control.  Your life has changed.  You are living behind the bars that hold you prisoner.  You want your old life back, but because of the new position your roots have been uprooted from the days before and you have sprouted into the life you must live today. 

In this life you feel like the lone ranger, much like two weeks after a funeral.  If any of you have experienced that feeling you know what I am talking about.  In the beginning or in the end there are many people there for you, but two weeks later every one has gone on their merry way.  We become sad, depressed and maybe even distraught.  We are now placed in the dungeon of the dark and dreary.

When locked in this prison cell it is time to learn valuable lessons.  Will they be easy lessons to learn?  Will this process be over quickly?  Probably no is the answer to both. 

What I am drawn to is this:  God isn’t the maker of chaos and confusion, He is the Prince of Peace, and He is our savior.  He will save us from the prison cell that has locked us into this new life.  The chaos and confusion that occupies the dungeon isn’t His workings. He will unlock the chains, however this will only be done in His time NOT in ours. 

Don’t rush the unlocking of the handcuffs; the most valuable lesson may be waiting on you tomorrow. 

1 Corinthians 14:33New King James Version (NKJV)

33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.