As Saul of Tarsus heads to Damascus to arrest believers, God confronts the bitter, self-righteous Pharisee.
Acts 9:3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
In an instant, the very Christ he has denied, hated and attacked is speaking to him.
Acts 9:4-5 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Saul, who later became Paul, told governors, kings, soldiers, and common men and women about Jesus—how He died and rose again to save them—about His love, grace and mercy.
The Gospel he hated became the thing he loved to talk about the most. The Lord he tried to destroy became the Lord he couldn’t talk about enough
No one thought Saul could be saved, but God can do what we think is impossible.
Keep praying for your loved one. Keep talking to your friends about Jesus. When you, and they, least expect it, the light can come on and they can be saved.
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