Everyone hates to say goodbye. Paul has to say goodbye for the final time to the people in Ephesus. everyone really seemed to want him to stay and he didn’t really seam as if he wanted to go. He had a real concern for the life of the church after he left. He turned them over to God and moved on. Sometimes thats what we’ve all got to do. Whether its letting go of someone or having to leave. All we can do is follow where God leads us and trust him and his provisions.
(side bar for pastor) If anyone falls asleep in service don’t feel bad, even Paul had one. However if anyone dies you better be able to pray ‘em back.
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie-roll pop? The world may never know. Paul says God told him to go to Jerusalem, yet everywhere he stopped along the way the people their had also had visions from God telling him not go. Should he or should he not have gone? One thing is for certain as we read on Paul offers us a wealth of knowledge even though he goes to Jerusalem and is arrested and put in prison. I can also say with a certain degree of certainty that if he hadn’t gone into Jerusalem gods knowledge for us would have still made it to us. So how many licks it, doesn’t really matter. The only thing that matters is that in the middle we get to enjoy the tootsie-roll (God). No matter how we get their the prize is the same.
I say it takes 3 licks to get to the center. 3 days for Christ to raise from the dead, the Holy Trinity....
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