Travel plans….
This weekend all of my children and grandchildren will all be here, in one place…first time in nine years…some are traveling in from Tennessee, others are coming from Oregon, Montana…some I have never met due to travel restrictions, health…the twelve grandkids have grown, Some married, in college…each finding their way in the world…we have been planning this since last winter…with accommodations, travel routes, meals, activities…logistics…
Reading through the book of Acts, you might think Paul, for all of his travels, might have benefited from our computers to make all of his plans…
In chapters 20 and 21, there’s a running list of places he visited, boats he took, people he saw…first here, then a boat there…over and over again…the ports must have been such a bustling place…finding passage to here and there a ritual that many took if they wanted to travel…
Now we think more of cars, planes, trains, less of boats…
But, Paul had a purpose…he was reaching people for the gospel, visiting people whom he had known before, he was teaching, exhorting, admonishing, encouraging at every stop…and at some, he was saying “goodbye “…he had a destination, Jerusalem…
I have met some who have travelled the world, either as missionaries or just travelled…others who haven’t left their state…Paul probably met the same kind as well…each with their paths in lives…he took the gospel to each…Jesus’ love has no partiality…
Thank YOU for each of our journeys through this world…
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears.
And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
And there was much weeping on the part of all; they embraced Paul and kissed him, being sorrowful most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they would not see his face again.
And they accompanied him to the ship.
Acts.20.21-22, Acts.20.28,Acts.20.31-32,Acts.20.36-38
For God shows no partiality.
Rom.2.11
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
Acts.10.34-35
Every step…
Early morNing tracks…
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