This Sunday is the second day of the New Year for the Jews...
I have begun my journal early, and in a little while I'll be going to the prison's chapel for the worship service.
At this moment, shortly after breakfast, I am sitting at my little desk. Actually, it is not a desk at all, but rather a 36-inch-long by 15-inch-wide steel shelf that is embedded into the cinder blocks which make up the back and side walls of this cell.
As opposed to yesterday's beautiful blue sky and God's parade of pure white clouds, today is rainy and damp.
I do not specifically know all that God has planned for my life. Yet whatever it is, it will be good and perfect. He may want me to remain still and quiet in His presence, or He may continue to keep me in the "backside of the desert" to await some future call to the ministry. But while I wait, I am learning to allow my own "flesh" and my own "ambitions" to be crucified so that God's will is ultimately fulfilled in my life.
I do know, however, that many trials and tribulations are ahead. They will help me to build more trust in the Lord, and they will help my faith to grow. Now I just have to learn not to run away from them.
D.B.
At this moment, shortly after breakfast, I am sitting at my little desk. Actually, it is not a desk at all, but rather a 36-inch-long by 15-inch-wide steel shelf that is embedded into the cinder blocks which make up the back and side walls of this cell.
As opposed to yesterday's beautiful blue sky and God's parade of pure white clouds, today is rainy and damp.
I do not specifically know all that God has planned for my life. Yet whatever it is, it will be good and perfect. He may want me to remain still and quiet in His presence, or He may continue to keep me in the "backside of the desert" to await some future call to the ministry. But while I wait, I am learning to allow my own "flesh" and my own "ambitions" to be crucified so that God's will is ultimately fulfilled in my life.
I do know, however, that many trials and tribulations are ahead. They will help me to build more trust in the Lord, and they will help my faith to grow. Now I just have to learn not to run away from them.
D.B.
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