Come to Christ, they said; your life will be perfect, they said. If your life is all messed up, follow Christ and your life will be perfect. How many times have you ever heard this? All of this sounds great, but unfortunately it doesn’t always work out like this. Our life does not become instantly happy because and lovely just because we put our trust and faith in Christ. In fact, often our life gets harder. Instead of life on easy street we feel like we go straight from the frying pan to the fire. Instead of everything getting easier, we find ourselves facing opposition, being ridiculed and persecuted. Saul was on his way up the religious ladder. He was persecuting followers of Jesus, for him, everything was looking up. He met God and he was changed. In an instant, he went from the persecutor to being persecuted. For him, everything got suddenly harder. In fact listen to Saul/Paul tell us about his life “I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequ