The Trip to Rome

Acts 25:1-28:31

This trip of Paul's was long. It took months and there were several instances when it reminded me more of Jonah's trials than of a simple trip to jail. At each point Paul spoke well with the people who would listen and yet, unlike Jonah he was not running away from God's call but going along with it, and in each instance there were people who heard the Good News for the first time and believed.

The passages on the sea would be quite something to have lived through, smelly and scary no doubt, but still the way that Paul spoke and never stopped telling the people who would listen what God had planned...it would have been quite something to have lived through.

Paul does live through it and so do the soldiers. Today we heard that Paul spent two years in Rome speaking with anyone who would come to him.

Do we know people like those who listened to Paul, to whom he said: For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed...Are we closing our own eyes to the work of God around us? Or shall we like 'some,' shall we believe?

See you tomorrow.
-maggie