God’s Roundabout Way by H. Clay Trumbull

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · May 7, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 18.

God’s Roundabout Way

By H. Clay Trumbull

"AFTER three months we set sail. . . . At Syracuse, we tarried . . . From thence we made a circuit . . . and so we came to Rome." And this was a voyage where God was leading his own messenger, with a promise of bringing him safely to its end. What a roundabout way God seems to take for the accomplishing of his purposes! Can we wonder that strange and unlooked-for embarrassments, and hindrances, and delays, come into our experiences, while we know that we are in the path of duty, desiring to be led of God? Why Paul was led in such a roundabout way—such a tossed-about way—toward Rome, you and I do not know. But that it was all of God’s leading, and that it is of the kind of leading for which we must be prepared, and with which we must be contented, we ought not to question or to doubt.—H. Clay Trumbull.