How do I see?

But Paul called out with a loud voice 'Don't harm yourself, because we are all here!' Then the jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. Then he escorted them out and said, 'Sirs, what must I do to be saved?' Acts 16:28,29

This soldier was important to the Lord. He caused Paul and Silas to be unable to go into the lands of Phrygia and Galatia, Mysia and Bithynia and gave Paul a dream in which he saw a man from Macedonia pleading with him, 'Cross over to Macedonia and help us!'

Next Paul and Silas get put in jail after being beaten, the there is an earthquake. This soldier and his whole house become believers. We don't hear about him or what he is to do but God had a plan. 

Paul and Silas could have easily become discouraged and wondered at the call to Macedonia. Being beaten and thrown into jail was probably not what they expected yet they trusted God.

When the officials came to release Paul and Silas and discovered that they had been hasty in beating up and jailing Roman Citizens they asked them to leave town. So in the one town a demoniac woman was delivered and a roman soldier and his whole house had been saved. Not quite what we would expect from this call, but God had a plan.

This always two ways of looking at things. Our ways which judge what we see and God's ways which see way beyond the now and into time.

In the Kingdom of God we can follow His vision and travel far or our own limited vision or our own interpretation of His vision. Again and again we see throughout all scripture that  God's ways are higher than ours.

When my previous pastor left last Sunday I knew something had finished but yesterday I saw the new begin, it was fresh and alive and very, very different. The new man is not an apostle but a pastor with a new message for the church and the city. Grace has come. Amen!