Part 62 | Walking Through the Hard Door

There is a lot going on in these two chapters, but we are going to keep the focus on Paul’s appeal to Caesar. We see him take that door to Rome, only to learn that a door to freedom would have opened soon after. It’s actually frustrating to read and can trigger the instinct to second guess Paul’s choice to appeal to Caesar. However, the goal of this lesson is to help people see that we can miss the best opportunities that Jesus is laying out for us, when we misjudge difficult doors as the wrong ones. We can also second guess the path we have chosen, when an easier looking one opens up after we’ve already made a decision. But when following Jesus, how easy a path is or isn’t, doesn’t indicate whether or not it is the right one. We must move forward in faith - not second guessing every decision or waiting for a path of least resistance - trusting God to reward our faith and our courage to move forward.