I Am Going Through Some Stuff

Acts 27:16 – 26

¹⁶Running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we managed with difficulty to secure the ship’s boat.  ¹⁷After hoisting it up, they used supports to undergird the ship.  Then, fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the gear, and thus they were driven along.  ¹⁸Since we were violently storm-tossed, they began the next day to jettison the cargo.  ¹⁹And on the third day they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.  ²⁰When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.

²¹Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and incurred this injury and loss.  ²²Yet now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.  ²³For this very night there stood before me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship, ²⁴and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’  ²⁵So take heart, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told.  ²⁶But we must run aground on some island.”