Paul told Philemon that "perhaps you were separated from him for a brief time, so that you might get him back permanently." Onesimus left a rebellious slave. He returned a brother in Christ.
Often our running from a situation leads us home in a more permanent way! This is my pray for everyone who has left a situation bringing brokenness to their households. May each of them find Christ who will lead them home in a permanent way.
This is an awesome book. Onesimus' imprisonment, likely from rebellion, brought him in contact with another prisoner…the apostle Paul. It was perhaps "God's plan". We can never run outside of God's loving arms.
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