Drifting
For this entire year, I have had the privilege of leading my small congregation through the book of Acts during our weekly Bible Study sessions. We recently completed the book and I was so moved by Paul's last journey - by how a journey God had ordained could turn so chaotic. In the midst of trying to prove himself innocent to his vicious accusers, God had appeared to Paul, telling him that he would now go to Rome. Paul was currently in Jerusalem, another destination God had revealed beforehand. Not only did God tell him he'd have to go to Jerusalem (Acts 20:22), He also had told him what would transpire there. "Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, “The Holy Spirit says, ‘In this way the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’” Acts 21:11 After the prophet Agabus delivered this prophesy, Paul's companions begged him not to go to Jerusalem. They believed this