Jesus told Paul he was going to Rome. The sail should have taken three or four weeks. It took two and a half years. In between, Paul sat in a Jerusalem jail, got put on a ship that never should have left, spent 14 days in a storm with no sun or stars to steer by, watched all 276 people on board give up hope, and got bit by a snake about five minutes after washing up on an island he'd never heard of. None of that canceled what God said. We're in Acts 27 and 28 this week, walking through three things that didn't change the promise: the delay, the difficulty, and the detour. Delay shows you where you've started cutting corners. Storms show you what you actually trust when the cargo goes over the side. And Malta, the island nobody would have picked, is where the gospel landed and stayed. That island is over 85% Christian today, with a port named af ...