Acts 25:9 KJV
But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?
Acts 24:27 KJV
But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
I am reminded that it is more common that the people of the world will "shew each other a pleasure" than it is they choose to do the right thing. Felix had been under conviction. He knew that Paul should have been released and he knew that the message he preached was powerful and true. Still he was more influenced by the pressure of the crowd than the truth of God's Word.
The power of God is infinite and God can do anything. But God does not do everything we think He ought. Paul's treatment by the Romans seems so wrong. He had done nothing worthy of bonds. Still he was bound. God could have done something about it and did not.
Faith trusts that God is good anyway.
But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?
Acts 24:27 KJV
But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
I am reminded that it is more common that the people of the world will "shew each other a pleasure" than it is they choose to do the right thing. Felix had been under conviction. He knew that Paul should have been released and he knew that the message he preached was powerful and true. Still he was more influenced by the pressure of the crowd than the truth of God's Word.
The power of God is infinite and God can do anything. But God does not do everything we think He ought. Paul's treatment by the Romans seems so wrong. He had done nothing worthy of bonds. Still he was bound. God could have done something about it and did not.
Faith trusts that God is good anyway.
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