verses read: Acts 26 - 27:12, Proverbs 10:23
prayer: 30 minutes
Read the passage in two parts again, last night and this morning. I'm trying to finish reading Acts soon, then going to move on to Daniel. This is because we will be studying Daniel at AnnTiC. So I thought I read that book first to get a better idea of what is going on.
Paul now tells his testimony to King Agrippa, and King Agrippa realises that if Paul had not made an appeal to Caesar, he could have been set free right there. So Luke joins Paul again and they head towards Rome. This was no short journey. For many days they hug the coast and make for the Island of Crete. And attempt to spend the winter there. But things go down south (literally!).
Anyway, of the things Paul says in his testimony made me read that portion over and over again. Really as though it was meant for me to read and to take heart.
"To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass:
that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles." - Acts 26: 22-23
Help does indeed come from the Lord; when we are in the darkest times of need. (I know that's not the main point of the above passage.) Was very down yesterday, and the topology paper wasn't fantastic. But I'm learning how to ask others for help in times of need. And learning to use the Lord's strength instead of mine. It's going to be a long journey. Just like Paul, storms are going to come to waylay me. But at the end of it all, no matter how bad the outcome, it will be for God's glory.
A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct, but a man of understanding delights in wisdom. - Proverbs 10:23
