“There is that Prison!”

Hi John,

I‘ve been thinking of the first time I felt the Spirit speak to me after I received the holy Ghost. 

While walking out on one of my favorite wilderness paths at a park on the edge of town, I saw the familiar sight of the big set of stone buildings off in the distance that make up some sort of Catholic convent.  I remember hating that thing every time I came to it and saw it sticking out of the beautiful landscape like an ugly sore.  When I saw it, I said to myself, “There is that prison!”  And as soon as I said that, the Spirit said to me, “Hate the prison, but not the prisoner.”

Thinking back on this experience reminded me of the only real difference there is between a Christian church and all of the other man-made religions of the world; that is, most of God’s people today are in bondage to those places, thinking that is where Jesus is and where he wants them.

Vince