By Milo Haskour –
His street name, his criminal handle, was “Trap.”
It’s not just a little bit ironic.
But last month, Trap swapped his trap name for his birth name, Mason, and got baptized in jail. He escaped the trap of the devil.
He’s still in jail, but now he’s free.
Fellow inmates, Christians behind bars, hooted, clapped and cheered. Another soul the devil had snared came to Jesus.
“We are in this together!” inmates shouted. Around 15 guys had been praying for Mason, and he hadn’t known it. They were caring for him. He wasn’t alone.
Some men only find Jesus when they are at wit’s end. The good thing is that he still loves us even when we have exhausted every other avenue. We come broken, he makes us whole.
Mason is serving a 4-year sentence. He has spent time in solitary confinement.
He’s a backslider. At his baptism, he recognized that he faked being a Christian: “I was playing for God,” he says on a video uploaded by God Behind Bars.
But now he wanted to be real, genuine, sincere, bonafide.
He was touched when he attended a service with other inmates. Jennie Allen was preaching. She’s a pretty lady, and one wonders what is she doing showing love to the ugly, ruined, destroyed inmates that society has deemed worthless.
As she expounded the word, Mason’s heart pounded. The Holy Spirit was calling. He accepted Christ.
And then at a baptism service, he got baptized.
“We used to call him Trap but we’re not calling him that no more,” one of the leaders shouted.
After that, the whole room broke down in tears.
