Good morning. Psalm 92:
For You, oh Lord, have made me glad by what You have done. I will sing for joy
at the works of Your hands. How great are Your works O Lord! Your thoughts are
very deep. God has done great things for us; and we should sing for joy every
day. His thoughts are very deep. Things happen for a reason that we do not
always understand. And yet He knows how well they will work out for us. If we
knew what we would have to go through to get where He wants us to be, we would
never go. No matter what, we know "the righteous man will flourish like
the palm tree". They will still yield fruit in old age (of course we are
not there yet). As the old commercial said "you're not getting older,
you're just getting better". We shall be full of sap and very green. We
won't get brown and withered. The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are
a mere breath. We can't figure out things on our own; we need God's wisdom.
Blessed is the man whom You chasten, oh Lord, and teach out of Your law. God
chastens us by His Spirit through His word. We don't have to go through harmful
things to learn a lesson. We just have to obey His Spirit and His word. Father
thank You that the reader will flourish and yield fruit. He/she is attentive to
Your word; and obeys the voice of Your Spirit continually.
When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul began to admonish them to not continue, because he perceived that not only would there be a loss of the cargo but also of their lives.
Good morning. When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they proceeded to deliver Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion. Notice that “we“ returns. Luke has not been mentioned during the entire two years that Paul was at Caesarea. I guess it is safe to assume that he was in the area during this time. We will leave out the names of a bunch of places where they passed. They had sailed for a good many days and began to have trouble with the wind. This was a warning of what was about to happen. When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast (Day of Atonement) was already over, Paul began to admonish them to not continue, because he perceived that not only would there be a loss of the cargo but also of their lives. The centurion was more persuaded by the pilot and the captain of the ship than by what was being said by Paul. They did not want to get stuck for the winter in the port where they were located. They actually were only g...
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