Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Acts 25:23-27
by: Susan Bond.
How wondrous our God who works out his plan, who directs our paths in the midst of circumstances beyond human understanding (Proverbs 20:24)! The governor Festus was in a quandary; none of Paul's situation made sense to him. But he was playing right into God's plan to get Paul to Rome (Acts 23:11). Proverbs 21:1 told us that "the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases" (NIV). Another favorite proverb befitting today's passage: "It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings" (Proverbs 25:2, NIV).