Hope for All (1 of 4)
Series: Home has Come
Michael White
1 Timothy 1:15-17
15 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. 16 But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life. 17 To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
After ten years of unbearable isolation, Edmund Dantes was ready to die.
The fictional hero of Alexandre Dumas' 19th Century novel, the count of monte cristo, Dantes had been falsely accused of treason by his closest friends on his wedding day.
Thrown in a dark prison on a remote island, eating only stale craps of bread, he sat pondering for a decade what had transpired that brought him there.
With no human contact aside from the guard whom he saw for only seconds each day, the only human voice he heard was the haunting echoes of his own conscience wondering why am I suffering so horribly?
In the early months and years of his imprisonment he thought, maybe there is a way out. Maybe I can appeal to the authorities. Maybe I can pursue justice. Surely there must have been a mistake!
But All of his desperate pleas were met with mockery and abuse.
Then he thought maybe I can escape! And he searched every nook and cranny of that prison cell. He considered every possible option on how he could escape, studied every brick and bar. Yet the more he tried the more daunting and discouraging it became.
Imagine being in that cell with him. You've had no trial, no understanding of when you might, if ever, be released, No contact with the outside world. Just the despair of knowing that you may live in dark hopeless isolation for the rest of your life.
Dantes eventually becomes so discouraged that he decides to end his life. His only es ...
Series: Home has Come
Michael White
1 Timothy 1:15-17
15 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. 16 But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life. 17 To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
After ten years of unbearable isolation, Edmund Dantes was ready to die.
The fictional hero of Alexandre Dumas' 19th Century novel, the count of monte cristo, Dantes had been falsely accused of treason by his closest friends on his wedding day.
Thrown in a dark prison on a remote island, eating only stale craps of bread, he sat pondering for a decade what had transpired that brought him there.
With no human contact aside from the guard whom he saw for only seconds each day, the only human voice he heard was the haunting echoes of his own conscience wondering why am I suffering so horribly?
In the early months and years of his imprisonment he thought, maybe there is a way out. Maybe I can appeal to the authorities. Maybe I can pursue justice. Surely there must have been a mistake!
But All of his desperate pleas were met with mockery and abuse.
Then he thought maybe I can escape! And he searched every nook and cranny of that prison cell. He considered every possible option on how he could escape, studied every brick and bar. Yet the more he tried the more daunting and discouraging it became.
Imagine being in that cell with him. You've had no trial, no understanding of when you might, if ever, be released, No contact with the outside world. Just the despair of knowing that you may live in dark hopeless isolation for the rest of your life.
Dantes eventually becomes so discouraged that he decides to end his life. His only es ...
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