Are you somewhere you do not want to be?  Are your circumstances uncomfortable?

Consider Paul, imprisoned in Caesarea for two years waiting trial.  Did he want to be there?  Doubtful.  Were his circumstances comfortable?  We do not know, but anytime one is in prison it is not a comfortable place to be.  We do know what Paul said: “If, however, I am guilty of doing anything deserving death, I do not refuse to die.”
(Acts 25:11 NIV)

What is going on in your life?  From your point of view who has control of your circumstances?  Consider Paul’s point of view as he stood trial in Caesarea.  Festus had control over the outcome of Paul’s trial.  But God was in ultimate control.

Festus was the new Roman governor over Israel.  He traveled to Jerusalem to look over his responsibilities there.  The Jewish religious leaders stated their case against Paul.  Festus would be working with the Jewish leaders and he wanted to do them a favor.  Politics has not changed!  Political favors are still alive and well thousands of years later.
Festus invited those men to go with him to Caesarea and prosecute Paul there.

Festus did not waste time; the next day after he arrived in Caesarea he convened the trial.

(NASB) Acts 25:6- “…he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought.
7 After Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him which they could not prove,
8 while Paul said in his own defense, ‘I have committed no offense either against the Law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.
9 But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul and said, ‘Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and stand trial before me on these charges?’

The Jewish leaders met with Festus when he visited Jerusalem and requested Paul to be brought to Jerusalem to be tried.  What Festus did not know: the Jews had formulated a plan to ambush Paul on his way to Jerusalem and to kill him. (Acts 25:3)

What was Paul’s response to the question of the governor?
(NASB) Acts 25:10-11 “But Paul said, ‘I am standing before Caesar’s tribunal, where I ought to be tried.  I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as you also very well know.
11 ‘If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if none of those things is true of which these men accuse me, no one can hand me over to them.  I appeal to Caesar.’”

Paul thwarted the plans of the Jews to kill him.  Did Paul know their plans? I don’t believe he did.  But what Paul did know: Jesus said that he was to be His witness at Rome.
(Acts 23:11)

Paul was on God’s timetable, not the Jews’, or the Roman governor’s, but God’s!

Whose timetable are you on?