They look more like young Army recruits fresh out of high school...
...and just getting ready to begin basic training than convicted felons, facing long prison sentences.
Yet this is the type of inmate I am seeing more and more of behind these walls. They look angry and bewildered at the same time. In the neighborhoods each of them grew up in, they lived by a code of violence, and yet they seem to have retained some of their childhood innocence and naivety. This younger generation of baby face criminals seems so out of place in here.
However, this is a different generation than the one I was a part of. But I can relate to them because they're travelling down the same road I had travelled on more than two decades earlier. This is the road of sin, sickness, sorrow, misery, and ultimately death.
The Bible says, "There is nothing new under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9). So it is of no surprise then that the road I took is still well travelled. If I may say so, this well trekked road of ruin is the broad highway which Jesus spoke of that eventually ends at the mouth of Hell.
The Lord Jesus said, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it" (Matthew 7:13-14).
D.B.
Yet this is the type of inmate I am seeing more and more of behind these walls. They look angry and bewildered at the same time. In the neighborhoods each of them grew up in, they lived by a code of violence, and yet they seem to have retained some of their childhood innocence and naivety. This younger generation of baby face criminals seems so out of place in here.
However, this is a different generation than the one I was a part of. But I can relate to them because they're travelling down the same road I had travelled on more than two decades earlier. This is the road of sin, sickness, sorrow, misery, and ultimately death.
The Bible says, "There is nothing new under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9). So it is of no surprise then that the road I took is still well travelled. If I may say so, this well trekked road of ruin is the broad highway which Jesus spoke of that eventually ends at the mouth of Hell.
The Lord Jesus said, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it" (Matthew 7:13-14).
D.B.