He's a great character with a fantastic background.
Just to read where he came from and the journey he took is SO cool.
He started off as a Jew (but no ordinary Jew). His job was to find, hunt down, and persecute christians.
The Pharisees and 'religous' leaders of that time would have thought that when they got rid of Jesus all their problems would be over. However, after Pentecost when the Holy Spirit fell on the disciples and they all started performing miracles and seeing the early christian church grow, these 'religous' leaders would have been a bit worried again.
They needed to nip this 'cult' in the bud, before it got too out of control.
Saul (aka Paul) was a very effective persecutor, and his name was feared throughout the early christians. But God chose Saul, and after revealing Himself in 'illuminating' ways, Saul finally 'saw the light'.
Paul (no longer Saul) now made it his mission to spread the word of Jesus throughout many lands.
It amuses me that in Galatians, Paul is defending the right of the gentiles (non jews) to know the Lord and not to have to become a Jew. Previously, this same dude was killing christians because they didn't follow the law of Moses!
Ironic.
I guess I like Paul's story because God took the most unlikely character, someone who was going out of his way to prevent the spread of the gospel, to be one of the fore-runners for missionary.
We see this all the way throught the bible.... Abraham (too old), Moses (had a stutter), Noah (a drunk), David (danced in his pants), Jonah (racist and coward).The list goes on and on.
God uses normal people.
God uses losers.
He's got nothing else to work with!
Love you x
2 comments:
hey thats true, but without our "Dodgy" backgrounds then our testimonies would just be plain boring(but unique and exactly how God wanted them to be)!!! this is why God uses failures, this allows non christian people to relate to us and not think of christians as 'square' or 'goody goodys' we bust the bubble of sterio-typical bible-bashin God-squaders...when the world thinks its not conforming to christian principles, i think that its us christians not conforming to the world...but yeah, Paul's a dude
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