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- 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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