Meditations

          

By Darrell Rozeboom, missionary to Michigan prisoners

Hello everyone Im helping my dad continue these updates as he focuses on other areas not only on the website but in other areas of life, as we read through this letter from a inmate we would like to focus on the trials and great need for prayer that many are going through not only in prison but also out here and to see how God is working in many lives.

Thanks for your letter and the advice on the Parole Board interview. And thanks for making yourself available by phone. I already told them that I didn’t have a representative coming to the interview, but at my interview I will let them know that you are available by phone.
My Parole Board interview is scheduled for Tuesday, June 28, 2022, some time in the morning. I will be going over to the Control Center at 8 am, then will wait in the waiting area until they call my name. There are 9 inmates scheduled that morning for an interview, and I think at least 3 of them will be ahead of me since they have representatives coming.
I thank God for His work in my life and the good desires He has placed in my heart. It is Christ living in me who gives me the desire and the strength to make the right choices that are pleasing to Him. I realize the Parole Board doesn’t give much weight to that, but I know that walking with the Lord is the rock solid path for me for healthy thinking and living. I will do my best to present to the Board all the other reasons I am a diferent person than I used to be.
May God bless you and watch over you.

As I read this the first thing I noticed was that he said he didnt have a representative and it struck me that WOW as believers in Christ we always have a representative in heaven. Romans 8:34 obviously this man needs a human representative which my dad is happy to do. Another thing is that he’s living in prison, but yet Christ is living in him and we see again what we already know that Christ came to this earth to save sinners, Mark 2:17. Also when I read the Lord is my rock I couldnt help but to think of Matt 7 :24-27 where Jesus speaks about building our house upon the solid foundation of Him and no matter where we are at in life, or what we are going through, that foundation cannot be moved and our faith must be in Him. So we look forward to seeing how God will work not only in his situation but in all of our lives. with love, by Darrell for Marie & Gerrit

 

                                     

    NO TURNING BACK
Isaiah 50:7 “For the Lord God will help me: therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.”
 
These are the words of Jesus given by the Holy Spirit to the prophet Isaiah as he prophesied about the suffering of the coming Messiah, (Christ). Luke 9:51 is the fulfillment of this passage of Scripture, “…he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.”
 
Luke 17:32, Jesus said, “Remember Lot’s wife” when he was speaking about the “last days”.
 
Have we by the Grace of God committed our lives for his Glory? Not perfectly, but has that been our sincere desire? Abraham’s life is held up as an example of a life of faith, not perfectly.
 
Lot, because he permitted himself to get drunk, became the father of the Moabites and the Amonites, both enemies of God’s people. Our careless moments have consequences.
 
God demands perfection. Because we are born as sinners, we cannot meet God’s righteous demands in ourselves, therefore God provided his Son, Jesus Christ, to pay the ransom, yes, he purchased all who the Father gave him, John 6:37, to be with him in Glory after our life on earth is done.
 
Jesus promised us difficult times. John 16;33, …”ye shall have tribulation ” but, lest we get discouraged, he also said, “be of good cheer, I have overcome the world “. Victory in Jesus.
 
When in the midst of hardship, and “all others seem to have it so good” like the Psalmist in Psalm 73, remember, there is no turning back for believers.
 
In IITimothy 4 Paul warns Timothy about those who have itching ears, that is, they want to hear something other than sound doctrine. He said, Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.”
 
Let us take Paul’s advice for our own soul’s welfare. When we are tempted to look at things which seem to be pleasant, but are in opposition to the Word of God, be faithful, let not your heart be troubled, John 14:1,Jesus said, “ye believe in God, believe also in me.”
 
NO TURNING BACK