KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Box
INCREDIBLE AS IT sounds, Alexander Whortley lived in a mini-trailer 3 feet wide, 4 feet long, and 5 feet high until he died at the age of 80...
It was made of wood, had a metal roof, and it housed him and all his meager belongings. No matter where he worked, Whortley chose to spend his life in that cramped space, even though larger quarters were always available.
THOUGHTS: It isn't likely that any of us have chosen to live in boxes -- certainly not if housing with far more elbow room is available. But are we allowing ourselves to be squeezed into narrow boxes of a different sort? Are we hemmed in by an unforgiving spirit, bitterness, or sinful habits? Are we boxed in by unbelief with its coffin-like narrowness of vision, seeing only this little world and this brief lifetime as the hope-suffocating sum total of our existence? God wants us to live in the expansive joy of His strength, realizing the security of His protection and the blessing of His favor. He lovingly urges us to dwell in the spacious mansion of faith and freedom in Christ. But to do this, we have to move out of our spiritual boxes and abandon (Heb. 12:1; Luke 13:3) the doubt, the guilt, and the fear that constricts our souls (Vernon Grounds).
KneEmail: "For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly" (Psm. 84:11).