In meditating upon the Apostle Paul’s STORM, SHIPWRECK and SNAKEBITE travel log in Acts 27-28 one might think at first glance that God must be out to get him. However, a look through the Sovereignty of God lens reveals something far different:
· Closed Doors are often just Divine Detours.
· God guides by a zigzag and not a straight line.
· God sometimes takes us off-course to keep us on-course.
· At times, our plans need to fail so God’s plans can win.
· If you want to make God laugh, tell Him too many of your plans.
· God is never early, never late. He is right on time every time. You can trust His timing.
· There are no coincidences, only providence. No twist of fate, only divine appointments.
· When God seems to be crushing me, He is actually making me.
If Paul would have tried, as a preacher-boy or a jailbird, to get an appointment with Governor Publius of Malta or Caesar of the Roman Empire, it would have been impossible. Yet, SUFFERING, a STORM, a SHIPWRECK and a SNAKEBITE changed everything. The same goes for you and me.
I wonder what divine appointment awaits us.
Michael Sprague
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