All of life on earth is a prison. Often the Lord permits Satan to put us into an even more confining prison. If we do not learn to behave, men may put us in a literal prison.
When it is God who is directing that we be put in prison, and we are not suffering because of our own wickedness, it is that we may be delivered from those behaviors that bring Divine judgment and torment on us. If we remain faithful during our imprisonment we will be issued the crown of life.
