God makes a promise to Paul in Acts 23. In verse 11, God tells Paul he is going to go to Rome. In a sense, this is pretty awesome! Paul is going to get to minister in a brand new city. The most powerful city in the world at that time! The downside: he will be in jail, and, he had to go all the way to Jerusalem to get to Rome! I think God’s TomTom must have been broken, because Paul wasn’t that far from Rome when god told him to go to Jerusalem!
Sometimes you have to wonder why. Sometimes God doesn’t make sense. If Paul was supposed to get to Rome, he took a huge detour to get there. So then, why?
I can’t say for sure, but you have to think it has something to do with the people along the way. Paul witnessed in front of a huge group of Jews, the Jewish Council, and eventually Governor Felix and all of his people. It must have had something to do with them. It had to be so that they would have an opportunity to hear the truth.
You have to wonder sometimes if the journey God has you on has less to do with the destination as it has to do with the trip itself. Sometimes the journey is the destination. It’s important to keep our eyes on where God is taking us, but it is just as important to do His work all along the way. It might feel like two steps back, but look around and see who you got closer to with those two steps.
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