Freeeeeedom (please read like you are in Braveheart)

"Sasko is free"... these are the words my friend Sam told me as Jennifer and I entered a benefit concert for Sasko. 

We were shocked, amazed, thankful.  We could not believe it.  There have been so many obstacles that have kept Sasko in jail that it was becoming very easy to believe he was going to be there a while.  This was a totally unexpected event.  Earlier in the day he had had visitors and there was no indication he was going home.  With the little I know around 2:00 pm his cell was unlocked and he was told he was free to go. 

As Sam was telling us the story I could not help but think of Acts 12:5-10

5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. 6 The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. 7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. "Quick, get up!" he said, and the chains fell off Peter's wrists. 8 Then the angel said to him, "Put on your clothes and sandals." And Peter did so. "Wrap your cloak around you and follow me," the angel told him. 9 Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision. 10 They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him. 

Now I realize that a literal angel did not appear in Sasko's cell, but the same God that loosened the chains of Peter, swung that cell door wide open for my friend.  The God we see in the Bible, is the same today... He is still full of power and wonder that we can not imagine.  And when we wonder He shows up in magnificent ways.  

As this ordeal has unfolded it has been easy to blame a crazy legal system and to just question what is happening but we have always known that a sovereign God is in control and he just reminded us last night. 

The ordeal is not over there will still be a trial so we will continue to pray and we will pray boldly for even more miracles.