Today is Saturday, June 2, 2018. Hi, my name is Adam Burton, and you are listening to The Daily Devo, a short devotional designed to help you apply God's word to your life. The content comes from the Gospel Project. Make a few moments and read Acts 23 verses 1 through 24.
Some of history's most enduring works of literature were pinned from a surprising place, prison. John Bunyan wrote the Pilgrim's Progress from a prison in Bedford, England. Miguel D. Cervantes was in prison in Seville, Spain when he wrote Don Quiotto.
The memoirs and Napoleon Bonaparte were dictated while the leader was in prison on Saint Helena Island. The author translated the New Testament into the language of the people, German, while in hiding in the virtual prison of the workbook castle in Isonog, Germany. And Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote letter from Birmingham jail, of course, from a jail cell in the Alabama city.
God's people are no strangers to prison, either. Think of Joseph in the Egyptian jail, Daniel in a den of lions, John the Baptist inherits palace, the apostle John on the Isle of Patmos, and the persecuted church throughout history, even up to today, following God often leads to prison. At Paul to the list of believers who have spent time in prison, as his third missionary journey ended, Paul's friends warned him not to return to Jerusalem. Despite these warnings, Paul traveled to Jerusalem, unafraid of the potential consequences.
Think about this. What good? If any could possibly come from God's people being in prison. If you are in need of prayer, please get in touch with me.
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