There are a lot of times in the past I thought I wasn’t good enough to accomplish anything. I tried to fit in but bouts of self-doubt, fear of rejection and failure paralyzes me. So, I wasted a lot of time and opportunities then, instead of working on myself to fix my situation.
When I started to look at my life and made it my motto to live everyday as if it is the last, I began to recognize what’s important in life and what I needed to do. Gradually with God’s grace my view, my disposition and myself changed. I may not be able to recover the lost opportunities, lost relationship & lost time, but with the remainder of my life I can still start fresh and achieve my life’s purpose.
We may be rejected, overlooked, ignored, forgotten, inadequate or unimportant in the eyes of others and tried so hard to fit in, don’t lose heart. Remember that each of us have specific role that only us can play. God doesn’t use people who are self-sufficient. He actually favors the weak, the oppressed, the outcasts and the needy.
A young man whose father is a lawyer and her mother a philanthropist, seems to have a good life ahead of him. He earned his history degree and law degree with honors. After entering the US Marine Corps, he established his own law firm and eventually became the Special Counsel for Pres. Nixon. With the power and influence he had, he became the president’s “hitman”.
Later he was brought to trial for conspiring to cover up the Watergate burglaries. As he was facing arrest, his friend gave him the book “Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis. His life was transformed and his convictions changed. After consultation and prayer, he pleaded guilty to a different crime to which he believed he is responsible – obstruction of justice. He was later sentenced to prison and lost his legal license.
After seeing the plight of prisoners inside and the reforms that his father wanted ever since, he was convinced that he was being led to establish the world’s largest prison outreach organization - Prison Fellowship. It also branched out to another ministry, the Justice Fellowship that looks after criminal justice reforms. Today Prison Fellowship is active in all 50 states in the U.S., reaching more than 365k men and women prisoners and their programs are impacting more than 1,000 prisons.
He also became an author of several books and part of his experiences was made into film. His rights were reinstated after his release and he used his time speaking in conferences. He won several awards and recognition. He died due to complications in 2012 after he underwent surgery.
CHARLES COLSON will always be remembered as someone who did not waste the hard lessons he learned in life to obey God’s leading and transform his unappealing condition to accomplish much for the Lord.
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