As I have studied the Scriptures over the years, God has shown me many things, but about the time that I think I have a certain passage figured out, God shows me something that I had never seen before in the passage. No, we are not to try to make the Bible say what it does not say, and there are certain rules for interpretation that we must follow. We certainly do not go by our feelings, but often passages are written with layers of truth. The top layer is not wrong and it for sure was intended, but there may also be two or more layers below that top layer. If we are willing to study and listen to our Lord, then He may reveal to us what we did not see without study. I am convinced that the human writers God used to write down His Word could not understand everything that they were writing, or all of its ramifications. This week Paul is going to be attentive, and while sitting in prison God is going to show him how this was all a part of His great plan. I admit that seldom have I seen my disappointments (at least at the time)as the hand of God. A few of them I look back upon and clearly see that He was at work.