Sunday Reading: Acts 9:1-9
Key Verse: Acts 9:5
5 And he said, Who are you, lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecute. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.
Devotion:
What does it take for you to believe something? It seems like too many times in our lives we are faced with stories or things that just turn out to be lies or junk that we are now somehow conditioned to no believing anything until we have absolute proof. Well, things have been like that for a long time, the only thing changing being the media by which these untruths are being told. Back in the time of Paul/Saul we like to think that people had to take a deliberate and somewhat extended step to tell a lie. We can take a quick walk through our bibles to se that that actually has been the case all along and that we now still have to take a deliberate step; it’s just that our steps seem to be a lot easier for us to take…
Why should they seem easier? Has it become easier? Well, it probably depends on how you view God! The more that you distance yourself from God the more that you will find it easier to work against Him. The more that you work against Him the more you will find it easier… That does not mean that God is ignoring your! Saul (soon to be renamed Paul) was one who plotted and worked against God to entrap, punish and execute as many Christians as possible to try and get people away from the truth. He was brought up in the lies and he firmly believed in them. He certainly had enough head knowledge about God to know better but he chose not to dig too deep into the truth – therein lies another of our problems…
We tend to take the truth and let it pass us by rather than grasping it and finding out more about it. We should be taking God’s Word and finding out all we can about it so that we do know God’s will in our lives. Instead we tend to skim over things and take what we like rather than absorbing the whole truth. We like to ignore the small things so that we can still enjoy our own lives in the ways that we think are best. It took a rather drastic action from God to get Saul’s attention; what will it take God to o for you to stop and take notice of the real truth?
Points to Ponder:
Are you selective in your beliefs?
Are you taking in all of Gods Word?
