Inspirations

In Acts 9 we read about the conversion of Saul.   The same person who was persecuting the church came face to face with God and everything changed.   God gave Ananias the impossible assignment of going to Saul and praying for him.  His prayer would restore Saul’s sight.  Ananias had no idea what to expect.  Saul had a reputation as a persecutor of Christians.  He knew that it was entirely possible that Saul would kill him once his sight was restored.  It was likely that Ananias had some serious concerns about going into the “lion’s den”.  Undoubtedly, it took an amazing amount of trust to follow Gods instructions.   It was one amazing “trust fall” into the arms of God.  He had to believe that God knew what he was doing even though he could not understand the plan.  We can look back and see the whole plan but Ananias had no such luxury.  He had to believe that God had spoken and that God makes no ...

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...