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Thursday, January 06, 2011

“Saul was there, giving approval to (Stephen’s) death” (Acts 8:1). 

In our last visit we amplified the information gathered about the apostle Paul before his conversion experience on the road to Damascus as recorded in Acts 9. Most people do not have such a dramatic encounter with Jesus Christ – a blinding light, an audible voice and direction concerning your next step and a vision of the one who is going to come to remove his blindness and explain God’s plan for his life. 
 
That didn’t happen to me and most people I have prayed with to receive Jesus Christ didn’t have experiences anywhere close to this. But if you have trusted in Jesus Christ and been converted you have experienced the essence of what Paul experienced. You have become a child of God and received eternal life. The Holy Spirit has entered your life just as He entered Paul’s life. God has a plan for you just as He had a plan for Paul. 
 
God used many different people in the life of Paul bringing him to salvation and as he began to grow in his faith. His parents had a profound impact on his life as seen in the move they made to Jerusalem so he could study under Gamaliel. Yes, though he is not recorded as having made a commitment to Jesus Christ himself, Gamaliel was used by God to give Paul a rich Biblical exposure to the truth. 
 
Paul never forgot the witness and martyrdom of Stephen, recorded in Acts 7. Stephen never saw the fruit of his work for God, but because of his witness in word, deed and death he had a powerful influence on Paul. We never know whose life our witness might touch as God prepares them for salvation and service. So be faithful in letting your light shine.
 

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