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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Saturday, March 4, 2023
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Paul Sails for Rome Bible Verse:Acts 27:1-7 (ESV) "And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius. And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica. The next day we put in at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him leave to go to his friends and be cared for. And putting out to sea from there we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us. And when we had sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia. There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy and put us on board. We sailed slowly for a number of days and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus, and as the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone. " Message:
Although we call this “Paul’s Fourth Journey,” it differs from the first three in fundamental ways. It is not entirely voluntary; Paul’s only choices are a trial in Jerusalem or a trial in Rome. He is still in custody, a prisoner. He does not have control over his itinerary; he could not choose, for example, to stay in Ephesus for three years. And the primary purpose of the voyage is not to spread Christ’s word. He is, rather, being transferred to a different trial venue by the Roman authorities.
But there are also similarities to his earlier voyages. He will preach and spread Christ’s word to new lands, to people who would not have heard him otherwise. Also, he is, in fact, traveling a long way to a place he has never been, Italia (Italy), easily the farthest he has even been from Judea or Antioch; so most writers think of it as the fourth journey or voyage of Paul. Luckily, Paul seems to be getting lenient treatment from his guard, more like a passenger than a prisoner in chains.
We bump into the difficult term “Asia“ again. Technically, Roman Asia was a province in northwest Anatolia (the great landmass of modern Turkey), in the vicinity of Ephesus. That cannot be the meaning here, however; the Roman province of Asia is a long way away and not on the way to Rome. So Asia is used, as a general term, to refer to the land between Judea and Greece.
Meditation : Prayer : And finally, may the grace of Christ our Savior, and the Father’s boundless love, with the Holy Spirit’s favor, rest upon me, and all of us, from above. Thus may we abide in union, with each other and the Lord, and possess, in sweet communion, joys which earth cannot afford. .... Amen |
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