the astounding prison diary
of david berkowitz
beginning 2000
My New Year’s Prayer
“Father God, I come to you in Jesus’ Name, and I ask you to use me for your glory and honor, and to make me to be a source of blessing and encouragement for people who are troubled, lonely, confused and hurting.
“Lord, I have tried many times in the past to keep some kind of spiritual journal, and I failed to have the discipline to do it. Please help me to be more disciplined and to be more faithful in doing this. I pray that whatever I write will be anointed and approved by You.
“I know that you have always loved me and never rejected me. You have showered me with Your abundant grace and mercy, and You have spared my life from Satan and from my own self-destructiveness time and time again. I thank You for this!
“Lord, I thank You, too, for choosing me even before I was in my mother’s womb, to one day be able to know and serve You. I pray that my life will no longer be a source of pain and hurt to others like it was in the past. That as a new creation, as I am today in Christ Jesus, I can continue to be a light in the midst of the spiritual darkness that is in this world. And I pray You will keep me as the salt of this earth. That I will be Your sweet fragrance as I live among the prisoners and guards in this place.
“Father God, please continue to use me as an instrument of hope, healing, and encouragement. I ask You, God of Israel, that your divine forgiveness through Your Son Jesus, will always be fully manifested in my life for all to see. May they see that You are a forgiveing God, full of compassion and mercy.
“Lord, there is so much more I want and need to pray for and about. But this shall suffice for now. Amen!”
January 1, 2000
This Journal
I thank God for the opportunity to write this personal journal, to make it available to as many people as possible, so that others might be encouraged to place their faith and hope in the Lord.
I also thank God for this chance to share what is happening in my life today, not to impress people, for a greater majority of them are neither going to care or believe me anyhow.
Oh, well, Jesus had the same problem. Multitudes of people saw all the miracles He did, yet they refused to believe in Him.
Yet in any event, here is my life today with all its struggles and victories, regrets and hopes, the daily challenges I must face as well as the blessings God grants me. My faith is in Him. And I believe that my best days are yet to come.
Likewise, my prayer is that the Lord would allow whatever I write to be something that will bring clarity and hope. May the Lord Jesus use whatever I say to encourage someone else. Amen!
January 3, 2000
No Glamour
There is absolutely no glamour to committing a crime and coming to prison. If teenagers and adults knew what awaited them in places like this, they would think twice before breaking the law.
Prisons are places of chaos and misery. One may get the impression that the guards do a good job of controlling the prisons because there are few riots. Well thank God that riots do not happen very often. But the reality is that internally prisons are almost always out of control because so many men are restless.
Inside these walls there is so much tension, so much nonsense going on with oftentimes endless hours of wild screaming and crazy behavior. There is all kinds of wheeling and dealing. To put it simply, prisons are a hell on earth. I know that if not for the grace of God in my life, I would have lost my mind long ago.
January 6, 2000
Go Higher
Jesus Christ wants to inspire His people to go higher, to look beyond the faults of others, even beyond our own faults. I believe that He wants to teach us to have self-respect. Yes, we will see ourselves as “sinners” who have fallen short. But also as human beings whom God wants to raise up to be good and useful people, to become men and women of hope in a world that sometimes seems hopeless.
God’s Word teaches us that, while we may have messed up in many areas of our lives, God can fix the parts of our lives that we or someone else may have broken. And He will at the same time show us how to do better the next time.
January 9, 2000
VIDEO SUCCESS REPORTS
I have been encouraged in the past several days because I’ve been getting some nice responses from the video I did, called THE CHOICE IS YOURS. It was released by “Gospel Films” (Gospel Communications, Inc.) in 1997.
The Lord had His hands on this. The video shows teenagers that there’s no such thing as a “hopeless” situation. That there is a way out of their problems, and this is through Jesus Christ.
It warns teens of the oftentimes hidden dangers that happen when bad choices are made. And at the end, it simply offers them the chance to make the “best choice” of all, Jesus Christ.
The video demonstrates that forgiveness and healing can take place in what seem to be the darkest of situations. That drugs, endless partying, and even suicide, are NOT the ways to escape one’s problems. Neither is joining a gang of dabbing in the Occult.
One dear friend of mine obtained sixty copies of the video to distribute to various Teen Callenge Centers throughout the United States. I am so thankful for this.
January 11, 2000
GOOD WORD FROM THE LORD
The Lord is ever faithful to always have a good word for me, even when it feels as if I am down in the valley, so to speak, and my work seems to be making no progress towards advancing Christ’s kingdom.
The other day I received a letter from a minister friend. He goes into several youth facilities on a regular basis, and here is a portion of his January 26th letter to me:
“…I’m so glad that God saved you, because you nave now had a positive impact on so many people. I shared the video “THE CHOICE IS YOURS” Last Thursday night at the Culver Youth Detention Center here in Midland (Texas), and it was great! It held the attention of everyone in that place and at here were three salvations! Praise be to our God Almighty!... Bro. Joe R.”
Amen!
DARK MEMORIES
1975-77 was a time of satanic torment for me. It was a
period of emotional turmoil and anguish, of confusion and
pressure to be a servant of the devil.
This was an evil time. I regret all that has happened. I
completely renounced my previous pact and all of my former
prayers to Satan. I am so sorry for all the lost lives and for
all the pain I caused others.
Yet there comes a time when the shame of the past has to
stop. Mourning must come to an end. There has to be a
realization that all the wishing, the grieving and the sadness
I have over such devastation cannot and will not change any
thing.
There must come a time when these negative feelings and
emotions must themselves be laid to rest. Yes, I should be
punished for my crimes. I do not have a problem with this.
Becoming a Christian while in prison should never be a "ticket"
out of prison. God forbid! Still I have long ago made my peace with God.
Jesus Christ has healed my mind and He has broken apart the spiritual chains which Satan had wrapped around me in the past.
Today I am thankful to be forgiven and to be in my right
mind. To have peace, joy, and satisfaction, knowing that I am
a child of God, that I am loved and cared for. This is worth
it all. What else do I need?
(c)David Berkowitz April 5, 2002
TO THE VICTIMS OF MY CRIMES
I am so sorry for the pain, grief and suffering that I have put you through. I know that you're still suffering till this very day. My criminal actions have torn apart your lives, and I regret this.
I hope and pray with all my heart that you will be able to heal as much as possible and that you will be able to go on with your lives.
You have every right to be angry with me and even to hate me. I do not expect you to forgive me either. But no matter what, I will always pray for each of you, and I wish you the best.
And if this will in some way help to bring you some peace and closure, I want to share with you my feelings concerningthe parole issue.
I am not trying to get parole, nor am I seeking it. I do not believe in doing this. I have accepted my sentence and my punishment. I admit, too, that I deserve to be in prison for the rest of my life. And I am not seeking your pity, but I am simply stating what I feel and believe.
So please do not be upset about this upcoming parole hearing. I am not looking forward to it. It's merely a procedure that's mandated by law, and in my situation you have nothing to worry about. I will be incarcerated for a long time to come.
I hope that what I've shared in this letter will help to bring you some comfort and ease your minds. Thank you, and may God always bless you.
(c)David Berkowitz April 2, 2002
April 3, 2000
DEALING WITH ENEMIES
I know with absolute certainty that the Almighty God has redeemed and forgiven me. He has called me out of spiritual darkness and has brought me to His marvelous light.
The Lord has also anointed me to share with others about His goodness and mercy, and to proclaim God’s Word that no one is beyond the reach of His love and forgiveness. I believe He also wants me to demonstrate, as much as possible, His love for everyone. Yes, even to my enemies and those who, for whatever reasons, hate me.
You see, the fact is, there are people who despise my very life. They continually curse me in their hearts, and are forever looking for ways to hurt me and somehow destroy my Christian testimony.
Several years after I became a Christian, God revealed to me that there will be many people who will try, through their ignorance, prejudice and bias, to fight against me in every way possible. These people have worked very hard and have made many efforts to hinder my attempts at doing good to others and with making my amends to society.
Some of these “enemies” have been media people. A handful have been former police officers and other “law enforcement” personnel. None of these people know me today. None of them really knew me back then.
In addition, some have been total strangers. There were even a few former prisoners who sought to cash in on having done time with me in the past..
And then there are the myriads of satanists and practitioners of various occultic arts who have written hateful things about me. Obviously they see me as a threat to their evil ways.
But my trust and confidence is in the Lord. “The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?” (Psalm 118:6)
(c)David Berkowitz. April 11, 2000
I am doing well and enduring the storms and trials through the power of the Holy Spirit. If not for the Lord imparting His divine strength to me, I would not survive all the fiery darts the dirty devil hurls at me night and day. But praise God, I have the victory in Christ. He is my Hope, my salvation, and my Rock.
I thank the Lord for His divine comfort and His ever-present help, even in times of trouble (Psalm 46:1-3) And I wish to simply encourage Christians to have fellowship with other believers when you can. No church is perfect, but God has placed others around us that we may encourage and build up one another in the faith.
In these times we’re living in, it is so easy to take our eyes off of Jesus. But we cannot afford to do this, not even for a second. It is easy to get discouraged. Yet it is must as easy to be encouraged.
(c)David Berkowitz April 17, 2000
I had a good time with the Lord this morning reading First Corinthians Chapter 15. Paul put his life in jeopardy every hour for the sake of the gospel. Yet he considered himself to be the “least” of all the other apostles, and not even worthy to be called an apostle, because he, in his past times of ignorance and hatred, persecuted the Church.
Still when he too became a believer in Jesus (Yeshua) he tried to make up for his past misdeeds by laboring “more abundantly” and more intensely than all the other apostles combined. I hope to do the same, making the most of each day.
(c)David Berkowitz April 18, 2000
I shared this short message of encouragement in the chapel this past week. I wrote down the highlights of it:
THE EXODUS
The Lord has been showing me something about our afflictions and our deliverance from them. Remember the Israelites, how they were enslaved by the Egyptians for 400 years? Well you know, just before their deliverance came their afflictions got worse.
Pharoah (who was a type of Satan) was obviously afraid that one day a deliverer would come for the Jews. He also felt intimidated by the large number of Hebrews who were in the land. And then the time came when Moses (a type of Christ) stepped before the Egyptian leader to demand the release from captivity of God’s people.
But rather than showing mercy and easing up on their afflictions and bondages, Pharaoh got upset and increased the sufferings of the Jews. This is today’s portrait, in a sense, of the devil.
Because Jesus Christ is soon to come, (and I believe the devil knows this) in his anger he is actually increasing his attacks upon God’s children.
The devil is angry because soon God’s people are going to be snatched off of this sin-scorched earth and we will be ushered into heaven.
I heaven we will be out of satan’s reach forever, just like the Jews, once they crossed the Red Sea, were out of Pharoah’s reach.
There is a parallel here. And so I believe that one of the reasons we, as a church and as individual believers, are going through so many trials and struggles in virtually every area of our lives, is because Satan knows that our Deliverer (Jesus) will soon come to take us away.
The devil is just trying to get in his last licks. Pharoah did the exact same thing to the Jews. But just as Pharoah was fully outsmarted and conquered when the day of deliverance came for the Hebrew slaves, so to satan will be full conquered when Christ come for us.
For when Jesus comes for His church, at this moment, all suffering, pain, struggle and hardship will come to an immediate end.
Praise the Lord! This should encourage us. Satan knows he has but a short time, and so do we!
(c)David Berkowitz May 25, 2000
The Lord showed me today (Luke 17:22-37) that until the time of the Rapture, it will be for most of the people of this world “business as usual.” Jesus will come suddenly for His Church, like maybe right now.
During Noah’s day and in the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, people were living good. It was a time of false peace and temporal prosperity. They had great plans and ambitions. There was no hint of what was to come. There were probably many “signs,” of course. And God always had His faithful witnesses proclaiming the coming judgment. But people were blind to the signs and deaf to the messengers.
Like it is nowadays, people seemed to live for money and pleasure. And like today, the spiritually blind of this world will one day find themselves right in the time Jesus Christ warned about, the “Tribulation.”
(c)David Berkowitz May 30, 2000
Today I was reading Micah 7:18-20 which is one of my favorite passages in the Bible. I know for a fact that I serve a God who loves to pardon and delights to show mercy. While He does not excuse or tolerate sin, He does give us space to repent and turn from our sins and come to Him for forgiveness and mercy.
Man will seldom forgive or pardon, especially if one has committed a crime. But thankfully God does not think or act in the same manner as prideful mankind. His ways are not our ways, nor are God’s thoughts like our thoughts.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8,9).
What a relief to know this truth!
(C) David Berkowitz
(c) All writings on this page are authored by David Berkowitz
and are the sole property of David Berkowitz
“Father God, I come to you in Jesus’ Name, and I ask you to use me for your glory and honor, and to make me to be a source of blessing and encouragement for people who are troubled, lonely, confused and hurting.
“Lord, I have tried many times in the past to keep some kind of spiritual journal, and I failed to have the discipline to do it. Please help me to be more disciplined and to be more faithful in doing this. I pray that whatever I write will be anointed and approved by You.
“I know that you have always loved me and never rejected me. You have showered me with Your abundant grace and mercy, and You have spared my life from Satan and from my own self-destructiveness time and time again. I thank You for this!
“Lord, I thank You, too, for choosing me even before I was in my mother’s womb, to one day be able to know and serve You. I pray that my life will no longer be a source of pain and hurt to others like it was in the past. That as a new creation, as I am today in Christ Jesus, I can continue to be a light in the midst of the spiritual darkness that is in this world. And I pray You will keep me as the salt of this earth. That I will be Your sweet fragrance as I live among the prisoners and guards in this place.
“Father God, please continue to use me as an instrument of hope, healing, and encouragement. I ask You, God of Israel, that your divine forgiveness through Your Son Jesus, will always be fully manifested in my life for all to see. May they see that You are a forgiveing God, full of compassion and mercy.
“Lord, there is so much more I want and need to pray for and about. But this shall suffice for now. Amen!”
January 1, 2000
This Journal
I thank God for the opportunity to write this personal journal, to make it available to as many people as possible, so that others might be encouraged to place their faith and hope in the Lord.
I also thank God for this chance to share what is happening in my life today, not to impress people, for a greater majority of them are neither going to care or believe me anyhow.
Oh, well, Jesus had the same problem. Multitudes of people saw all the miracles He did, yet they refused to believe in Him.
Yet in any event, here is my life today with all its struggles and victories, regrets and hopes, the daily challenges I must face as well as the blessings God grants me. My faith is in Him. And I believe that my best days are yet to come.
Likewise, my prayer is that the Lord would allow whatever I write to be something that will bring clarity and hope. May the Lord Jesus use whatever I say to encourage someone else. Amen!
January 3, 2000
No Glamour
There is absolutely no glamour to committing a crime and coming to prison. If teenagers and adults knew what awaited them in places like this, they would think twice before breaking the law.
Prisons are places of chaos and misery. One may get the impression that the guards do a good job of controlling the prisons because there are few riots. Well thank God that riots do not happen very often. But the reality is that internally prisons are almost always out of control because so many men are restless.
Inside these walls there is so much tension, so much nonsense going on with oftentimes endless hours of wild screaming and crazy behavior. There is all kinds of wheeling and dealing. To put it simply, prisons are a hell on earth. I know that if not for the grace of God in my life, I would have lost my mind long ago.
January 6, 2000
Go Higher
Jesus Christ wants to inspire His people to go higher, to look beyond the faults of others, even beyond our own faults. I believe that He wants to teach us to have self-respect. Yes, we will see ourselves as “sinners” who have fallen short. But also as human beings whom God wants to raise up to be good and useful people, to become men and women of hope in a world that sometimes seems hopeless.
God’s Word teaches us that, while we may have messed up in many areas of our lives, God can fix the parts of our lives that we or someone else may have broken. And He will at the same time show us how to do better the next time.
January 9, 2000
VIDEO SUCCESS REPORTS
I have been encouraged in the past several days because I’ve been getting some nice responses from the video I did, called THE CHOICE IS YOURS. It was released by “Gospel Films” (Gospel Communications, Inc.) in 1997.
The Lord had His hands on this. The video shows teenagers that there’s no such thing as a “hopeless” situation. That there is a way out of their problems, and this is through Jesus Christ.
It warns teens of the oftentimes hidden dangers that happen when bad choices are made. And at the end, it simply offers them the chance to make the “best choice” of all, Jesus Christ.
The video demonstrates that forgiveness and healing can take place in what seem to be the darkest of situations. That drugs, endless partying, and even suicide, are NOT the ways to escape one’s problems. Neither is joining a gang of dabbing in the Occult.
One dear friend of mine obtained sixty copies of the video to distribute to various Teen Callenge Centers throughout the United States. I am so thankful for this.
January 11, 2000
GOOD WORD FROM THE LORD
The Lord is ever faithful to always have a good word for me, even when it feels as if I am down in the valley, so to speak, and my work seems to be making no progress towards advancing Christ’s kingdom.
The other day I received a letter from a minister friend. He goes into several youth facilities on a regular basis, and here is a portion of his January 26th letter to me:
“…I’m so glad that God saved you, because you nave now had a positive impact on so many people. I shared the video “THE CHOICE IS YOURS” Last Thursday night at the Culver Youth Detention Center here in Midland (Texas), and it was great! It held the attention of everyone in that place and at here were three salvations! Praise be to our God Almighty!... Bro. Joe R.”
Amen!
DARK MEMORIES
1975-77 was a time of satanic torment for me. It was a
period of emotional turmoil and anguish, of confusion and
pressure to be a servant of the devil.
This was an evil time. I regret all that has happened. I
completely renounced my previous pact and all of my former
prayers to Satan. I am so sorry for all the lost lives and for
all the pain I caused others.
Yet there comes a time when the shame of the past has to
stop. Mourning must come to an end. There has to be a
realization that all the wishing, the grieving and the sadness
I have over such devastation cannot and will not change any
thing.
There must come a time when these negative feelings and
emotions must themselves be laid to rest. Yes, I should be
punished for my crimes. I do not have a problem with this.
Becoming a Christian while in prison should never be a "ticket"
out of prison. God forbid! Still I have long ago made my peace with God.
Jesus Christ has healed my mind and He has broken apart the spiritual chains which Satan had wrapped around me in the past.
Today I am thankful to be forgiven and to be in my right
mind. To have peace, joy, and satisfaction, knowing that I am
a child of God, that I am loved and cared for. This is worth
it all. What else do I need?
(c)David Berkowitz April 5, 2002
TO THE VICTIMS OF MY CRIMES
I am so sorry for the pain, grief and suffering that I have put you through. I know that you're still suffering till this very day. My criminal actions have torn apart your lives, and I regret this.
I hope and pray with all my heart that you will be able to heal as much as possible and that you will be able to go on with your lives.
You have every right to be angry with me and even to hate me. I do not expect you to forgive me either. But no matter what, I will always pray for each of you, and I wish you the best.
And if this will in some way help to bring you some peace and closure, I want to share with you my feelings concerningthe parole issue.
I am not trying to get parole, nor am I seeking it. I do not believe in doing this. I have accepted my sentence and my punishment. I admit, too, that I deserve to be in prison for the rest of my life. And I am not seeking your pity, but I am simply stating what I feel and believe.
So please do not be upset about this upcoming parole hearing. I am not looking forward to it. It's merely a procedure that's mandated by law, and in my situation you have nothing to worry about. I will be incarcerated for a long time to come.
I hope that what I've shared in this letter will help to bring you some comfort and ease your minds. Thank you, and may God always bless you.
(c)David Berkowitz April 2, 2002
April 3, 2000
DEALING WITH ENEMIES
I know with absolute certainty that the Almighty God has redeemed and forgiven me. He has called me out of spiritual darkness and has brought me to His marvelous light.
The Lord has also anointed me to share with others about His goodness and mercy, and to proclaim God’s Word that no one is beyond the reach of His love and forgiveness. I believe He also wants me to demonstrate, as much as possible, His love for everyone. Yes, even to my enemies and those who, for whatever reasons, hate me.
You see, the fact is, there are people who despise my very life. They continually curse me in their hearts, and are forever looking for ways to hurt me and somehow destroy my Christian testimony.
Several years after I became a Christian, God revealed to me that there will be many people who will try, through their ignorance, prejudice and bias, to fight against me in every way possible. These people have worked very hard and have made many efforts to hinder my attempts at doing good to others and with making my amends to society.
Some of these “enemies” have been media people. A handful have been former police officers and other “law enforcement” personnel. None of these people know me today. None of them really knew me back then.
In addition, some have been total strangers. There were even a few former prisoners who sought to cash in on having done time with me in the past..
And then there are the myriads of satanists and practitioners of various occultic arts who have written hateful things about me. Obviously they see me as a threat to their evil ways.
But my trust and confidence is in the Lord. “The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?” (Psalm 118:6)
(c)David Berkowitz. April 11, 2000
I am doing well and enduring the storms and trials through the power of the Holy Spirit. If not for the Lord imparting His divine strength to me, I would not survive all the fiery darts the dirty devil hurls at me night and day. But praise God, I have the victory in Christ. He is my Hope, my salvation, and my Rock.
I thank the Lord for His divine comfort and His ever-present help, even in times of trouble (Psalm 46:1-3) And I wish to simply encourage Christians to have fellowship with other believers when you can. No church is perfect, but God has placed others around us that we may encourage and build up one another in the faith.
In these times we’re living in, it is so easy to take our eyes off of Jesus. But we cannot afford to do this, not even for a second. It is easy to get discouraged. Yet it is must as easy to be encouraged.
(c)David Berkowitz April 17, 2000
I had a good time with the Lord this morning reading First Corinthians Chapter 15. Paul put his life in jeopardy every hour for the sake of the gospel. Yet he considered himself to be the “least” of all the other apostles, and not even worthy to be called an apostle, because he, in his past times of ignorance and hatred, persecuted the Church.
Still when he too became a believer in Jesus (Yeshua) he tried to make up for his past misdeeds by laboring “more abundantly” and more intensely than all the other apostles combined. I hope to do the same, making the most of each day.
(c)David Berkowitz April 18, 2000
I shared this short message of encouragement in the chapel this past week. I wrote down the highlights of it:
THE EXODUS
The Lord has been showing me something about our afflictions and our deliverance from them. Remember the Israelites, how they were enslaved by the Egyptians for 400 years? Well you know, just before their deliverance came their afflictions got worse.
Pharoah (who was a type of Satan) was obviously afraid that one day a deliverer would come for the Jews. He also felt intimidated by the large number of Hebrews who were in the land. And then the time came when Moses (a type of Christ) stepped before the Egyptian leader to demand the release from captivity of God’s people.
But rather than showing mercy and easing up on their afflictions and bondages, Pharaoh got upset and increased the sufferings of the Jews. This is today’s portrait, in a sense, of the devil.
Because Jesus Christ is soon to come, (and I believe the devil knows this) in his anger he is actually increasing his attacks upon God’s children.
The devil is angry because soon God’s people are going to be snatched off of this sin-scorched earth and we will be ushered into heaven.
I heaven we will be out of satan’s reach forever, just like the Jews, once they crossed the Red Sea, were out of Pharoah’s reach.
There is a parallel here. And so I believe that one of the reasons we, as a church and as individual believers, are going through so many trials and struggles in virtually every area of our lives, is because Satan knows that our Deliverer (Jesus) will soon come to take us away.
The devil is just trying to get in his last licks. Pharoah did the exact same thing to the Jews. But just as Pharoah was fully outsmarted and conquered when the day of deliverance came for the Hebrew slaves, so to satan will be full conquered when Christ come for us.
For when Jesus comes for His church, at this moment, all suffering, pain, struggle and hardship will come to an immediate end.
Praise the Lord! This should encourage us. Satan knows he has but a short time, and so do we!
(c)David Berkowitz May 25, 2000
The Lord showed me today (Luke 17:22-37) that until the time of the Rapture, it will be for most of the people of this world “business as usual.” Jesus will come suddenly for His Church, like maybe right now.
During Noah’s day and in the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, people were living good. It was a time of false peace and temporal prosperity. They had great plans and ambitions. There was no hint of what was to come. There were probably many “signs,” of course. And God always had His faithful witnesses proclaiming the coming judgment. But people were blind to the signs and deaf to the messengers.
Like it is nowadays, people seemed to live for money and pleasure. And like today, the spiritually blind of this world will one day find themselves right in the time Jesus Christ warned about, the “Tribulation.”
(c)David Berkowitz May 30, 2000
Today I was reading Micah 7:18-20 which is one of my favorite passages in the Bible. I know for a fact that I serve a God who loves to pardon and delights to show mercy. While He does not excuse or tolerate sin, He does give us space to repent and turn from our sins and come to Him for forgiveness and mercy.
Man will seldom forgive or pardon, especially if one has committed a crime. But thankfully God does not think or act in the same manner as prideful mankind. His ways are not our ways, nor are God’s thoughts like our thoughts.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8,9).
What a relief to know this truth!
(C) David Berkowitz
(c) All writings on this page are authored by David Berkowitz
and are the sole property of David Berkowitz
