Paul's letter to the Ephesians concludes with the apostle free whilst within the confines of the prison cell. So often we believe the lie that one day we will serve Christ and live for God, one day when circumstances are more congenial, one day when we are free so to do then we will serve. This denies the experience of Jonah who's spiritual peak was reached within the whale's belly, Paul whose epistles were penned in prison, John who concludes the canon from the Isle of Patmos and Stephen whose greatest sermon is delivered within the circle of his oppressors! Here in prison Paul is as free as anyone can be! Free in the Spirit, free in the gospel and free to serve! In Christ we have freedom to be free!
Dr J Stewart Gillespie