I shared earlier that Lee and I are reading Changed Into His Image together.

Yesterday when I visited him he told me how God is using it in his heart this week.

In the chapter we’re working on there is a section about how God humbles us.

Jim Berg says

1. He sends us problems we can’t handle to expose our helplessness

2. He gives us a command we won’t obey to expose our self-centerdness

3. He can arrange an outcome we can’t control to expose our sinfulness

4. He can show us a God we can’t comprehend to expose our finiteness.

 For number 2, his example was Jonah and Ninevah.

When I read Jonah, I think “Jonah, Jonah, Jonah! I can’t believe you wouldn’t want to go share about God with these Barbarians! They need God so much.”

Then we read about Jonah being upset that they repented and once again can’t believe him and his sinfulness.

It’s so easy to wag our fingers at Jonah without wagging it at ourselves isn’t it?

Lee told me that as he was reading God clearly showed him that prison is his Ninevah.

The guards that are unfair, the parole officer that has not been truthful, all the things that have been so hard for him–these are his Ninevah.

He said God reminded him that prison is where God has him now and they are the people he intends Lee to share the Gospel with. He reminded Lee that he must be the man God intends him to be–even there.

Please pray with me that God will continue to work in his heart and give him opportunities to witness. Also please pray that Lee will continue to be sensitive to the teaching and leading of the Holy Spirit.

Pray that he will be faithful in his Ninevah.

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