Food For Thought! It came to pass, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me. Acts 22, 6. What Saul here reported of his life applies in some way or other to each one of us. So long as we are alive, our life resembles a journey. There is no standing still. The crucial issue is: what Is our destination? Saul was an educated man, a theologian with a thorough knowledge of Jewish law. Yet he was on a wrong track. As a strict Pharisee he imagined his duty was to persecute the Christians. He even thought he was doing God a service thereby. For that reason he undertook the trip to Damascus. But because as far as faith was concerned he was on a wrong pathway, Jesus Christ made him halt on his way. He found himself dazzled by the light from heaven; that made him aware that he was going astray and heading for a dead end. This occurrence turned Paul into another man: he underwent a complete and radical change. From an enemy of Jesus Christ he was transformed into a faithful servant, his hatred changed to fervent love, his fanaticism to true devotion. The proverbial transformation of Saul into Paul thus took place. Everybody needs to undergo this transformation. The Bible calls it conversion. It consists in turning from a pathway of self-will to follow Christ, from the broad way that leads to destruction to the narrow path of life (cf. Mathew 7, 13. 14). Even if God does not use a miracle, as He did with Paul, He brings us face to face with Himself nevertheless. Our conscience may prick us, or serious occurrences affect our life to make us sense how hollow a life is apart from God. God speaks in many different ways. A new life begins for for those who attend to His call.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:31:29 +0000
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