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Acts chapter 24 verse 27 says when two years had elapsed

Felix was succeeded by Portia's Festus, and desiring to do the Jews of favor, Felix left Paul in prison.

Oh, I read that, and I think so two years Paul is left in prison because this leader

Felix wants to do the Jews a favor and I think about Paul and obviously we don't know this from the text but I put myself in Paul's shoes and I've just got to wonder if he's thinking why am I stuck here in prison?

Like I could be out preaching the gospel,

I could be out planting churches,

there are so many things that need to be done,

things that I could be doing that I know God would be glorified in so why has God in his sovereignty

allowed for me even ordained for me to be in prison during these

couple of years I just think of all the questions and I imagine Paul's praying

for release Paul's praying for the spread of the gospel. I mean he wrote the church at Rome

saying I want to come with you help get the gospel to Spain because they haven't

heard the gospel there and yet those plans that Paul had are

being thwarted here as he sits in prison but in the middle of it I imagine Paul

trusting that God has a bigger plan in the middle of it all.

And I think about my own life, I think about your life,

I don't know all that's going on in your life, but I'm guessing there are times and some of you may be in one of those times right now

Where you wonder why this or that is happening around you, why you are enduring this or that challenge, and

why it doesn't seem to end, why for years it continues even, and this text just beckons us to pray with trust in God and

trust in his plans so God I pray this for my own life. I pray this particularly for people who were

walking through trials right now that don't seem to have an end in sight, that don't seem to make sense.

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