God Blessed the Broken Road

There is a Rascal Flatts song that says, “God blessed the broken road that led me straight to you.” It’s a song about a man looking back at all the broken hearts and wrong turns on the way to finding the one he loves – and realizing that God had arranged every one of them to get him exactly where he was supposed to be.

That is how the Apostle Paul must have felt as he stood on the banks of a river in Greece, having just shared the Gospel for the first time on the European continent, and watching as the Lord opened the heart of a woman named Lydia.

How did Paul get from Antioch, where his mission team was sent out, to that riverbank in Europe? His path to get there was anything but straight and easy. It was a broken road: there were twists & turns, and disappointments, and dead ends along the way.

And there is a good chance your life looks something like that road right now. Please find Acts 15:36-16:10.