Paul’s conversion in the book of Acts is quite phenomenal.
You see, Paul was a hater. Oh, not the Paul who wrote the New Testament missives we treasure today, but the Paul before Paul. Back when he was Saul.
Yeah, the Saul version of our treasured apostle wasn’t a very nice guy. As a young man, he held the cloaks of those who stoned Stephen, participating by association if not with actual stones. As he matured, he received a government degree to obliterate the Christians. Did his hand ever wield the sword? The scriptures don’t say, but he did approve the arrest and killing of those who followed the Christ.
Then God stepped in and changed everything about Saul, giving us Paul, our treasured and much-loved apostle.
Acts 26:18 gives us Paul’s new reason for being:
“To open [sinners’] eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.”
Paul likened himself to a blind man who had been enslaved, impure, immoral, poverty-stricken, and unholy. All that was cast off, and now he knew sight, liberty, forgiveness, and holiness based upon faith in the cross and in Christ our Lord.
Paul had been given a passion for Christ to replace his mission for the world. He became one of Christ’s greatest warriors.
When we come to Christ, we become like Christ, and our goals are no longer the same as they were before.
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