Daily Devotionals by Ardith Keef

 
      Two things in particular strike me about Paul's letters from prison:
     He doesn't mention his discomfort or longing to be released. He doesn't ask for prayer to be released in any of the letters that we have.
     Also, even though he refers to himself as the "chief of sinners", he knows better than to waste time going on and on about all the people he tortured and persecuted before he met Christ.
     These are two areas in which we can know for a certainty the enemy tried to use on him. How do we know? Because as clever as satan is, he is not very resourceful. He is always trying to get God's people to look back to rub out or re-experience the past OR he challenges Christian contentment.
      A servant of the Living God must live here and now, and must be about the Father's business, not the enemy's. Furthermore, as soon as I am distracted into discontent, the Holy spirit is quenched, and pretty soon I will either fall silent or issue a fountain of garbage.
      Let Him have it all - the past, the present, and then He can use us for the future.
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