[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] FW: [CWWC] THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD

Tue Jun 8 14:05:46 UTC 2021

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THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have
sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. For
you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable,
through the living and enduring word of God.
<https://link.biblegateway.com/click/24084418.5660/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmlibGVnY
XRld2F5LmNvbS9wYXNzYWdlLz9zZWFyY2g9MVBldC4xLjIyLTFQZXQuMS4yMw/5ef562bd102223
74f46b6174B03d63d91> 1 Peter 1:22-23

The Bible has always been an important resource to those who have not had
access to it. especially those in prison. Christian singer, Helen Berhane
shares how she smuggled a Bible into a shipping container prison in Eritrea
and later was moved to another container which already held eighteen
Christian women who had refused to give up their faith. She writes in her
book, Song of the Nightingale, how the Word of God impacted her and the
other women:

We were very overcrowded, but I was happy to join a Christian group again.
Since I was the longest serving prisoner, I took charge. I wanted to help
them as much as I could, because I knew they would be comforted by the
thought that someone cared for them. I would fold the older ladies' blankets
when they went out to the toilet in the morning, and I would stay behind to
clean the container [of human waste].

Many of them were worried about their husbands and children, so I tried to
keep them busy and establish a routine. I would start by preparing
breakfast; at this point we got four bread rolls each, two in the morning
and two in the evening, with weak lentil soup, and a cup of tea.

Then I would lead a Bible meditation and then I would sing. A month after I
was first imprisoned I had managed to smuggle a Bible past the guards. I
can't tell you exactly how I did it, as people still use this method and it
is important that the authorities don't find out how it's done, but I can
say it was a whole Bible split into five smaller sections. This made it
easier for me to hide it. Previously I had just read it alone, but now we
did group readings every day. I also sang new songs to the group that I had
written in prison.[1]

RESPONSE: Today I will cherish my Bible and make sure that in my freedom I
internalize it as much as those in prison for the faith.

PRAYER: Pray that all Christian prisoners will somehow gain access to a
Bible or the message of the Bible today for encouragement and hope.

1. Berhane, p.49.

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