Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast

with your host, Emma Daughter. Thanks for joining. Today's Devo was actually written by a watermark

member named Isaac, who's a missionary in Indonesia. And we tried so hard to get him on the podcast,

but unfortunately, we weren't able to make it happen.

So I want to start by reading some of his divo.

He and his wife, Casey, along with their three kids, live and serve in Papua, Indonesia as missionaries.

What's it like to live in Papua?

He writes, I'm glad you asked.

The daily chores of life take a little more work.

No dishwasher, no dryer, no clean drinking water.

But on the other hand, I never have to check the weather app.

It's around 90 degrees with clear skies and a chance of rain pretty much every day.

So from a tropical island in the South Pacific, good morning. Or if you're

listening to this at night, I'm sure he'd say, good evening. One of the questions I get every now and then

is, is it dangerous to live in Papua? He answers honestly, yes, we've got poisonous snakes,

intertribal violence, very limited medical resources, tropical diseases.

The list goes on. It's dangerous. At this point, people will typically ask him, well,

aren't you afraid? That's a tough one to answer, he writes. Aren't you afraid? I find it puzzling how in a relatively safe place like the

U.S. I see people who are consumed by fear, he says, and I'm not just talking about non-Christians.

Plenty of believers seem to live their lives focused on their fears. Think about it honestly,

maybe even pause the episode. What are you afraid of? In Acts 23, Isaac

continues, Paul is in the bowels of the Roman legal system as a group of religious zealots seek to

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