JUST THINKING:
They did not have the technology then to confirm if he was the culprit but he was made the guinea pig. But he was eventually released in 2019 and confirmed innocent when technology confirmed it that the finger prints they had were not his but were the finger prints of a serial rapist. He suffered the crime of another person and because he was black.
After he came out, he was asked how he survived it in the prison. He said the prison was the bloodiest prison in the USA and you have to be strong to survive that prison by being strong and not weak. He also said that he went to prison but his mind was not in prison. And he added that losing everything is like letting the sun go down on you.
This case may sound familiar to many and also some people may easily identify with it because they have had similar issues.
My dad being a paramilitary man told us that so many people in prison are innocent. He said some were victims of circumstances. If you have been or gone for a prison evangelism, you will understand better.
Archie Williams said he was in prison but his mind was not in that prison. But the reverse is the case for some. Some people have not gone to prison but their minds are in prison because they have been accused wrongly.
Others have been released from prison but their minds are still in prison because their minds were conditioned to the pains, regrets, life, torture, trials, beatings, punishments, treatments and the conditions of the prison just like the Israelites who said that they preferred Egypt to freedom.
Archie Williams lost 37 years of his life for a crime he didn't commit. Have you lost your life, properties, peace, home, and other things because you were accused wrongly? Please don't give up and die in the pain of the regrets because there is hope for you. God will vindicate you. Don't let the sun go down on you.
Joseph was accused wrongly as well but he didn't allow the sun go down on him. If he was always crying and thinking and eventually he had a stroke, he would have died in prison or he would have still interpreted Pharaoh's dream and be released. But he would be in a bad state of health and not be able to enjoy his freedom, position and wealth at the end of the day.
Everyone of us is being accused today by the devil because he is the accuser of the brethren and he brings trials, storms, persecutions, circumstances and issues of life our way to condition us to condemnation, pains, regrets and even death.
Job lost his children, properties and wealth. If it were his properties he lost alone, it would have been better. But he lost his children. Children are far more valuable than properties. I can't imagine what he felt in the face of his trials. He was even accused wrongly and he was told to curse God.
But Job held on to his faith in God. He refused to curse God when his loved ones told him to curse God or to deny his faith. And the God he held unto showed up for him later on with double double of everything he lost.
If you refuse to curse God like Job and you refuse to allow the prison or trials or pains to get into your mind like Archie Williams, and you hold unto God and are determined, you will come out victoriously, better and stronger. Though you have lost everything or something, please don't let the sun go down on you.
You are coming out or you will come out of that prison, that situation, that confinement, and that circumstance ten times better. Hallelujah
