A LESSON FOR FESTUS AND ME

 Why, yes, I was reading Acts 25 this morning.  How did you guess?

Festus and I share some of the same problems.  No, I had nothing to do with Paul being sent to Rome.  Festus and I have a similar problem  in this...When you are unsure of what to do....go to the Lord!

Here is Festus,  wondering how to treat Paul when all the stories told to him by the Jerusalem Jews were fabricated!  And now Festus is holding Paul as a captive who has asked to be heard by Ceasar himself..in Rome.  (What a shame that Festus was not a believer in the Jewish God. ) Of course, to complicate things, Paul believes the Jewish God is the same god as the one who is the father of this Jesus!( Our own Heavenly Father) And how can a heavenly being be the father of a human person?

Now, Festus had heard about a teacher-healer who was crucified.  These Jerusalem Jews hated the people who believed this man was the promised Messiah and especially because so many were saying this Jesus, if that is his name, was risen from the dead.  Good grief!  What people will believe!  But this Paul, can he possible believe this?

Of course, when Paul came before the governor, Festus and his guests began to believe.  But, how to save him from Jerusalem and now Rome? If only Festus truly believed, for he and he only could have found a way to keep Paul from eventual destruction. But he didn't know he could take it to  a higher power than Ceasar in Rome.

This is still the same in our world.  Even those of us who love the Lord and pray to the Father, even we, may forget to go to the Father when we are unsure of what to do.  It is too bad, isn't it, that we forget we can find help from the heavenly realm? We are pumped up with our own importance.  Of course, I can figure out a solution to this mess.  But maybe, just maybe, I may be wrong.

God is our provider. He will know what is best.  He will always know what is the best way to work our way out of a tight place.  Only He knows.

Remember the TV show FATHER KNOWS BEST?  Well, maybe not all father's know best, but this Father does know best! Help me, someone, to always remember this...Father God knows best!

Now, I wish for you a very good day.  And love from

Jo