Two Weeks Following Paul: Day 1

Acts 9

Today, I started what my Bible calls a "Two-Week Guided Tour." It lists a bunch of topics that one can choose from, like "Women in the Bible" or "Prayers throughout the Bible" or "Social Justice" or "Two Weeks Following the Ministry of Paul." The four I just listed are the ones that sounded the most exciting to me, and I started with Paul. Today, it had me read Acts 9.

I've read it before, but that's the cool thing about the Bible- you can read the same thing time and time again, and each time, you'll learn something new. I love it.

Today, it really hit me that God will use whoever he wants to use for his mission. Paul (Saul at the time) persecuted followers of Jesus. He hated them. He wanted them to die.

What's crazy is that Paul turns out to be God's main man. He eventually (not long after his conversion in Acts 9) travels all over, and also finds time to write letters of encouragement or instruction to tons of churches. Those letters then became like half of the New Testament. SO CRAZY!

I love this, because it's proof that even though I mess up, even though I'm not perfect and I don't always seek the Lord like I should, God's got bigger plans, and he will make sure they get carried out. So encouraging. I can rest easy.