<p>1:17<i> When I planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, so that in the same breath I say, Yes, yes and then No, no?- </i>The change in travel plans, going to Macedonia via Troas rather than Corinth, was because of an opening for the Gospel in Troas (2:12). Yet Paul's critics interpreted this as fickleness. Any commitment to the Lord's work immediately opens us up for criticism and wilful misinterpretation of our motives. &quot;Yes, yes&quot; is the language of :20 about the preaching of the Lord Jesus. Not only must we preach because our Lord preached. We must witness <i>as He witnessed</i>. Paul understood us to have been anointed in a similar way to who Christ was anointed; and thereby we become witnesses of Him. In this context, he explains that he wasn&rsquo;t vague and uncertain in the matter of preaching; he didn&rsquo;t keep vacillating between yes and no because this was not how Jesus preached- in Him was &ldquo;yes&rdquo; (2 Cor. 1:20,17).</p>