Prodigal: It looks lonely and dark in there.

Me: We all have our times that seem dark.

Prodigal: What are we to do?

Me: Remember that it will not last.

This is from the book Joseph: A Man of Integrity and Forgiveness by Charles Swindoll

Listen to me, victims of mistreatment; more importantly, please listen to God’s truth. He has a hundred different messages to give you during a hundred different dungeon experiences. He knows just the right message at just the right time, and all it takes to receive it is a sensitive, obedient, trusting heart. Not one preoccupied with revenge or bitterness or hostility, but a heart that says, “Lord, God, help me now. Right at this moment. Deliver me from my own prison. Help me to see beyond the darkness, to see Your hand. As I am being crushed, remold me. Help me to see You in this abandonment, this rejection.” Pray that prayer. Turn your trial into trust as you look to God to tenderly use that affliction, that dungeon, that abandonment for His purpose. I plead with you–do that today! If Joseph could survive those years of mistreatment, loneliness, and loss, I am confident you can too!

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org