Paul’s second missionary journey
Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of
Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the
word in the province of Asia. 7 When they came to the border of Mysia, they
tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to. 8 So
they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas. 9 During the night Paul had a
vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, "Come over to Macedonia
and help us." 10 After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to
leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to
them. Acts 16 v6:9 NIV
For sometime now since returning to Plymouth I have
struggled to find a church in which I can serve God and continue to use the
blog to explore possible explanations which make sense to my understanding of
scripture. One was Lev 16 v7:8. A secular alternative is the Rhyme of the
Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
A third is Paul’s second missionary journey and his vision of a man from
Macedonica saying "Come over to Macedonia and help us” for I am longing
for God to not give me a vision but an actual person who will say “Come to
....... and help us” as I don’t seem able to trust “visions” any more One major problem with my story and that of
Paul’s is he had people to help him. Such
as Ananias. In Acts 9 we read how Paul obtain
authority to arrest and drag back to Jerusalem any Jew who had become a
Christian and despite Ananis being fearful of Paul’s
reputation went and restored his sight.
In Act 16 Paul had a number of followers with him including Luke so he
no doubt discussed it with them before v10 says ... we got ready at once to
leave for Macedonia. Much as I have
tried to discuss with people that which I believed Christ was saying no one
seems to be prepared to discuss it in anything but a superficial way. I therefore had no other option but to step
out in faith, trusting that if I was
right God would bring it about.
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