Been there, done that

After Philippians 1:27-30

I sit in a prison, here, and write

to you there. And it was there

that I was once arrested 

for freeing that slave girl 

of her demon, for giving her

a new life. The men who made

money from her enslavement,

those merchants of death, 

were not pleased. We were 

arrested because we stopped this 

one example of human trafficking.

But we were delivered, a miracle,

and now I sit in prison 

for the same reason, because 

of the threat to the order,

the existing order, the status quo.

Faithfulness is often followed 

by suffering. But it is not what

has happened to the world, how it 

has decayed; instead, it is what

has come to the world, 

the salvation of hope. That hope

unleashes servants upon the world.

Photograph by Larm Rmah via Unsplash. Used with permission.