#536 Trust in His Perspective Frees us from Every ‘Prison’ Part 2
We don’t need to let any challenging or limiting experience imprison our spiritual life!
So often we imprison ourselves by the thoughts and views we choose.
“My eyes are continually toward the LORD, for only He will release my feet from the snare. Psalm 25:5 NASB/NIV
“We think of Daniel praying in the lion's den and answering the king in a cheerful voice, "The God whom I serve hath sent his angel and shut the lion's mouth." We remember the three Hebrew captives, who, because of faithfulness to God, were cast into the fiery furnace; and who there had the presence with them of one in appearance like the Son of Man. We remember Bunyan, who, while in Bedford jail, England, for faithfulness to the truth, not only prayed to God, but figuratively sang his praises, as represented in his remarkable work—Pilgrim's Progress. We remember also King David of old, some of whose most expressive and impressive Psalms were written in hours of distress, when the Lord upheld him. Madam Guyon, while imprisoned in the Castle Vincennes (1695), wrote songs and sang them in praise to God. Writing of it subsequently she said, "It sometimes seems to me as if I were a little bird, whom the Lord had placed in a cage, and that I had nothing now to do but to sing. The joy of my heart gave brightness to the objects around me. The stones of my prison looked to my eyes like rubies." In prison she wrote:--
"A little bird I am, shut from the fields of air;
And in my songs I sit and sing to him who placed me there:
Well pleased a prisoner thus to be, because, my God, it pleaseth thee.
My cage confines me round,—abroad I cannot flee;
But though my wing is closely bound, my heart's at liberty.
My prison walls cannot control the flight, the freedom of my soul." R2182
(Thank you Sister Betty!)
We don’t need to let any challenging or limiting experience imprison our spiritual life!
So often we imprison ourselves by the thoughts and views we choose.
“My eyes are continually toward the LORD, for only He will release my feet from the snare. Psalm 25:5 NASB/NIV
“We think of Daniel praying in the lion's den and answering the king in a cheerful voice, "The God whom I serve hath sent his angel and shut the lion's mouth." We remember the three Hebrew captives, who, because of faithfulness to God, were cast into the fiery furnace; and who there had the presence with them of one in appearance like the Son of Man. We remember Bunyan, who, while in Bedford jail, England, for faithfulness to the truth, not only prayed to God, but figuratively sang his praises, as represented in his remarkable work—Pilgrim's Progress. We remember also King David of old, some of whose most expressive and impressive Psalms were written in hours of distress, when the Lord upheld him. Madam Guyon, while imprisoned in the Castle Vincennes (1695), wrote songs and sang them in praise to God. Writing of it subsequently she said, "It sometimes seems to me as if I were a little bird, whom the Lord had placed in a cage, and that I had nothing now to do but to sing. The joy of my heart gave brightness to the objects around me. The stones of my prison looked to my eyes like rubies." In prison she wrote:--
"A little bird I am, shut from the fields of air;
And in my songs I sit and sing to him who placed me there:
Well pleased a prisoner thus to be, because, my God, it pleaseth thee.
My cage confines me round,—abroad I cannot flee;
But though my wing is closely bound, my heart's at liberty.
My prison walls cannot control the flight, the freedom of my soul." R2182
(Thank you Sister Betty!)
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