For God’s Purpose
Max Lucado
Published on 05/21/2020
In 1965 Howard Rutledge parachuted into North Vietnam and spent the next several years in a prison in Hanoi, locked in a filthy cell, breathing stale, rotten air, trying to keep his sanity. Few of us will ever face the conditions of a POW camp. Yet, to one degree or another, we all spend time behind bars. After half-a-century of marriage, my friend’s wife began to lose her memory. A young mother just called, diagnosed with lupus. Why would God permit such imprisonment? To what purpose? Jeremiah 30 in verse 24 promises, “The Lord will not turn back until He has … Listen Now
