How we answer these three questions will have a lot to do with all the other questions we face throughout our lives. It is popular. In one way or another, everyone is asking the jailer's question. We all desire the wholeness that salvation brings. Pagan savages have burned their children alive hoping that such sacrifices will win the favor of their gods.
People experiment with drugs and sex looking for joy, peace, and fulfillment.
B. It is providential. God brought about the circumstances that night to accomplish His purposes. The guard assumed that the prisoners had fled and was ready to commit suicide because of a distorted sense of honor. While drifting along in the darkness on that terrible night the tide brought another man nearby. God, at times, providentially brings circumstances into our lives to shake our very foundations and to lead us to faith in His dear Son.