Once Jesus shows up in someone’s life, things change. Once Jesus revealed Himself, Saul was able to instantly connect all the dots of his life—all the places God had tried to reach out to him with the truth, all the people God put in his life to teach him about His true nature—and realized it was time to change. Now, in that instant, not the next day or the next week, Saul had a change of heart. “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Jesus didn’t just stop him in his tracks. He transformed him. He took a tool in the hand of the devil who was trying to wipe out Christianity from the earth and turned him into the greatest proponent and catalyst for Christianity the world has ever known. This is a guy, after all, who wrote two-thirds of the New Testament! In a world where all sin has been paid through the cross, justice is no longer retribution. God isn’t going to kill Saul for killing Stephen; instead He is going to infect him with the same zeal Stephen had. And He is going to make him ten times the evangelist that Stephen ever was! For every person saved from injustice, there is a person saved; but for every persecutor, oppressor, or exploiter saved, exponentially more could be saved! Make a decision to not only pray for those experiencing oppression, but to pray for the perpetrators as well. We must pray for changed hearts on both sides of these crimes to bring God’s true justice and peace into our world.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:37:43 +0000
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