Scattered

Many people are angry with the government for shutting down places of worship. However, they fail to understand that it is not the government who is in control, but it is God who has allowed religious gatherings to be disrupted and scattered. Saul, before he became Paul, did everything he could to destroy the early church. “On that day a great persecution broke out against the church at Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison. Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went” (Acts 8:1b-4 NIV).