7 We continued our voyage from Tyre and landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and sisters and stayed with them for a day. 8 Leaving the next day, we reached Caesarea and stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the Seven. 9 He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied. 10 After we had been there a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. 11 Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, “The Holy Spirit says, ‘In this way the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’ ” 12 When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem. 13 Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” 14 When he would not be dissuaded, we gave up and said, “The Lord’s will be done.” 15 After this, we started on our way up to Jerusalem. 16 Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us and brought us to the home of Mnason, where we were to stay. He was a man from Cyprus and one of the early disciples.
Acts 21:7-16 NIV
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If the believers in Tyre were not clear enough, God sent a prophet by the name of Agabus to warn Paul about his move to Jerusalem. Infact his illustration was so graphic that it made it clear what Paul was going to face in Jerusalem. Yet he still was adamant. He even embraced this possibility wholeheartedly. But was this God’s perfect will over his life? If God sent messengers to warn him of impending danger, wasn’t he to take some measures? Probably this is a subject of theological debate but I believe that God doesn’t reveal the future without reason. In the same way Paul was guided by the Holy Spirit in the mission field, he ought to have been guided by the Spirit as he soldiered on to Jerusalem. But he chose not to. Perhaps he was a man of great faith or was bare chested or had been battle hardened in the field. Perhaps his credentials as a sufferer of Christ emboldened him. But in all these situations, God sees the grand picture. Pretty much the same in our lives. Are there times we desire to do something yet we get indicators all around us that our venture will fail? Perhaps it’s God’s voice to us. To take heed. To accept to be led.
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