Dear Friends,
I got to know Fred from his days as one of Nashville’s homeless. He was getting back on his feet by selling newspapers on one of our major intersections.
Fred had done six years of what he called “prison time darkness” because the crime he committed fell under the “mandatory minimum sentence.” Mandatory sentencing requires that offenders serve a predefined term for certain crimes no matter the unique circumstances.
Unique circumstances or conditions. That would be pretty much all of us. Ernest Hemingway is quoted as saying, “we are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” The Bible says it another way, “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23.
How does God deal with a brokenness so common yet so uniquely described for each of us?
He doesn’t apply a “mandatory minimum sentence”. Instead, He offers a “mandatory sentence of grace.” It’s how “the light gets in.”
Have a well-lit day,
~Wynn
“I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.” John 12:46