The Sunday School class we joined a few weeks ago is studying Acts. I spent one whole year teaching Acts two years ago. We jumped in right at Saul’s conversion in chapter 9 last week and I can say I still am able to learn from it. While I won’t go into a dissertation about each, I’ll leave you with just three things that got me thinking and may do the same for you:
- Verse 2: Saul could pick out the Christians from a crowd in order to persecute them. Can people pick you out of a group of friends as a Christian?
- Verse 5: God made him blind. Normally we think of God as being the one that heals the blind not makes people blind. To me this is validity for the idea God lets you go through trials in order to “see Him” in the end. When Saul was made to see again, he had converted and would then become one of Christ’s biggest ambassadors instead of persecutors. Sometimes it takes something tough to go through to come out following Him.
- Verse 15: Saul was God’s chosen instrument. God DOES have a plan for us. For what are you a chosen instrument?