I have a friend who visits the jail at least once a week. He talks to the men who are imprisoned there about the Lord Jesus who loves them. Sadly, some of those prisoners were Christians when they were imprisoned. They know that Jesus died for their sins and that He was willing to be made “sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21). What a price Jesus paid!
My friend has a question for those Christian prisoners: “How could you know the price that Jesus paid to save you and then turn your back on Him and do such wicked things that you ended up in jail?”
Those prisoners hang their heads in shame, and almost every one of them gives this answer: “When I stopped reading my Bible, I fell into sin and just kept getting deeper and deeper into it.”
“When I stopped reading my Bible”! Don’t stop! Read it every day, and ask the Lord Jesus to show you what it means and how its precious words can bring purity and usefulness into your life. There is a saying that goes like this:
The Bible believed will keep you from sin,
Or sin will keep you from the Bible.
Make the right choice. “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:21). Read your Bible!
ML-08/07/2011