"Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was beholding the city full of idols.  So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present, and also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him.  And some were saying, 'What would this idle babbler wish to say?'  Others, 'He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,' because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.  And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, 'May we know what this new teaching is which you are proclaiming?  For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; we want to know therefore what these things mean.'"

Paul finds himself in the midst of the knowledge capitol of the world, and all because he listened to the provocation of his spirit.

Often we are provoked as well.  It can be difficult to listen to what we don't understand completely.  But we hear, non-the-less.  What will we do with that provoking?

Paul heard the Spirit say to his spirit, 'Go!'. 

So he went to the synagogue, and the market place, and the philosopher's center.  Anywhere he could because that was what obedience meant to him.

How will you deal with the provocation of your spirit?  Today?