The Apostle Paul put it bluntly to the church he’d founded in Corinth, where false teachers were luring the members away from pure Christianity: “I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ”.
As I was leaving a county correctional center one morning, after visiting someone who is serving time for repeated drug violations, it occurred to me that unless we are all watchful in daily claiming our true identity as God’s likeness, at one with our divine source, God, we can easily become prisoners ourselves—mental prisoners.
I was adjusting equipment for sit-ups at the exercise club when a whole ramp came off a bar and slammed down into the bottom metal brace, wedging the joint of my right index finger between the two.
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