Dear
Email Friends,
Just to keep you
posted on what is happening - below is a newsletter sent this week to
all the inmates corresponding with Piecemakers. It is a timely word for
all of us.
April 28.
2008
My dear
prisoners of hope,
Due to the
large number of letters we are so blessed to receive, I will write a
newsletter and pray it makes you feel one with us as do the individual
letters.
Before I get
into what is on my heart to share, I would like to remind all of you
that Jesus never said, woe unto you drug addicts, murderers or parole
violaters. He was pissed off at the lawyers, the justice system
and the religious. He called them all whited sepulchres filled
with dead man's bones. To the prisoners and harlots He just said,
"Go, your sins are forgiven you." I think we will see that type
of a move of God soon. Let us expect our God to make His
appearance and make whole the ones who have paid a dear price to a sick
society.
I am going to
talk to all of you about "trust". Webster has this to say about
the word. "Confidence, a reliance or resting of the mind on the
integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of
another person", then goes on to say, "Never violate a sacred
trust."
The children of Israel were 40 years in the wilderness as God gave them
light (manna) from the Rock to prove them. He proves us
with tests, with things we understand not, with disruptions, with the
subtraction from our life until only He remains, with tribulation and
persecution. He proves us to see if He can trust us. Israel
was so rebellious, always longing for the leeks of Egypt that the
moment their trust was tested, they built a golden calf that cost them
their salvation.
We, as God's
people are called to judge not only the world, but the angels. We
are called to watch over one another's soul, we are called to be
content with nothing to call our own, we are called to be vigilant over
God's people. We are called to be a light to the world, we are
called to be a plumbline for people to guide them on their way.
Now, I am
saying all of that to say this. Thus far we have had inmates come
to live with us as they tried to adjust to living in the world.
The prisons are set up to make worse criminals out of the ones sent
there for rehab. We have had stolen from us a truck, thousands in
credit card fraud and money as we innocently trusted them as they
looked us right in the eye professing to want God's ways, a new way of
life, and even professing to wanting to make a commitment, "Till death
do us part," as in the book of Ruth.
Remember, if we
cannot be trusted in the little things, how are we to be trusted in the
bigger things?
Now, how do I
feel about further opening our hearts, our homes to those less
fortunate??? I will always trust whomever God sends our
way. Then it is up to them to answer to God what they do with our
trust.
As times get
tougher, and all the world becomes void of any method of finding
peace, or joy or any type of contentment. As our old ways of life will
be passing away to make way for a new world, a new creation, people
will be looking for new life styles, a new way of living.
Communities will give way to the family as we know it. Cults will
spring up as people start clinging and workng together. Cults are
made up of people seeing how lacking the main stream of living is and
are brave enough to explore a new life style.
However--------------
Only God has
the answer to all of this. "He is a shield to those who trust in
Him." Let us all give up our life so as to be innocent and
blameless at the coming of the Lord. Now if you think you are a
Christian, a true believer, let me quote from the book of Acts so you
are not deceived into thinking because you received the Holy Spirit,
you are saved or whole or complete.
Acts 2:44 -
"Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and
sold their possessions and goods and divided them among all as anyone
had need."
Acts 4:32 -
"And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one
soul; neither said any of them that ought of the things which he
possessed was his own. But they had all things in common."
This describes
the life style of Piecemakers, of the new America. So as we
bravely leave our old life behind let us put our trust in the Lord and
let Him prove us so we become trustworthy vessels fit for our new home,
the kingdom of God.
Marie Kolasinski