God's Favour Surpasses All Boundaries
Acts 27 is a familiar chapter that talks about the shipwreck of Paul. Paul undertook three missionary journeys in his lifetime. This is Paul’s fourth and final missionary journey to Rome, where Paul was taken as a prisoner and would be tried before Caesar. Along with 276 other prisoners, Paul was travelling in a ship from Caesarea to Rome. This missionary trip is largely different from the other three. During the other journeys, Paul chose to travel to places he wanted so he could further the gospel. Not so this time; he is now a prisoner and had to go where he was taken. And the bad news is that the ship would soon go through a storm. These three verses are easy to ignore, because they are full of some names, names of places and names of men. However, these verses point to the favour of God that was so extensively available for Paul in the midst of the hardships that he was going through. Every individual mentioned here were not there by chance. You will find that God had specia...