Acts 26

Paul told his story again. Before Agrippa, Bernice, Festus, the commanders, the leading men of the city. And he told it fully. His background. His persecution of the church. The road to Damascus. The commission he received. What he’d been doing ever since.

Agrippa said: you almost persuade me.

Not quite. But almost.

Paul’s response is one of the most generous things in Acts: I pray to God that not only you but all who are listening to me today may become what I am, except for these chains.

He wanted for them what he had found. He wasn’t bitter about the chains. He wasn’t posturing. He just wanted them to know Jesus the way he did. And he held that desire with open hands, leaving the result to God.

Have you ever had conversations where you gave someone the full truth and they almost received it? You wonder what you could have said differently. Whether the moment was lost.

Paul didn’t seem to wonder that. He said what he had to say, left the outcome to God, and got on the boat to Rome.

You are responsible for the telling. God is responsible for what they do with it.