This is excerpts from a letter to a friend who affirms himself unfairly incarcerated by stories told by many young females today.
Though I have never been in jail myself, I have been a part of jail services and saw in part how men and women lived there.
It is dismal to think of one small room to yourself a one or a few roommates with very little privacy and your neighbors are usually in need of comfort of soul for the bottomless pit of sorrow despair anger resentment and other feelings hat come with being as a caged animal with human intellect. I am sure that it is difficult to amass much joy in such a forced confined lifestyle. However, know that the LORD has not forgotten you. Even this He will work for your
good if you allow it.
Some of God’s greatest men spent time unjustly incarcerated that afterward produced greatness in them and benefited others.
Though it must be very hard to be in this situation, the LORD often perfects us in hard times and places. In this we can come forth as shining gold reflecting our Father’s face.
Joseph, who was sold as a slave into Egypt by his brothers, later was falsely accused and thrown into prison. Through the hard places and feelings of incarceration; Joseph learned the skills to become not only a discerner of dreams, but to become the second ruler in the nation. He was second only to Pharaoh, who was the ruler of Egypt.
