This mornings text was Acts 9:1-22. The apostle Paul's conversion. Man, I would have liked to been there and seen that!! I had always imagined Paul and his associates riding horses to Damascus but it doesn't say that. Actually from the text it appears they were walking, which I suppose shouldn't surprise me, they all walked alot back then. I wonder what ever happened to the others who were with him? They heard the Lord's voice as well. Did they become followers of Christ also or did they choose not to believe and continue on in blindness? True blindness.
Paul had been spiritually blind then was physically blinded and from that Christ gave him true sight. In my devotions today it was talking about turning points in life. Often we look on some of these turning points as terrible disasters, crises and unwanted change. Yet God is at work through these times to turn us in a new and better direction. One in which we can better glorify Him and also have life more abundantly. He satisfies the true desires of our heart, even the ones we don't really even know until he shows us. Oh, what a God we serve and have the privilege to call Friend!!
"God does all these things to a man - twice, even three times - to turn back his soul from the pit,." that the light of life may shine on him." Job 33:29-30 NIV
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