STEEMCHURCH - A CHANGE OF 180 DEGREES (REFLECTION)

Falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying: Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? He said: Who are you, Lord? And he said: I am Jesus, whom you persecute.
Acts 9: 4-5

I cast off your rebellions as a cloud, and your sins as a cloud; turn to me, because I redeemed you.
Isaiah 44:22

Saul of Tarsus was a young Jewish scholar. But he was not satisfied with accumulating a vast knowledge of the biblical passages of the Old Testament, but he was a man of action, a "militant." In order to serve God, he wanted to keep the Jewish religion pure, and believed that he should persecute Christians fiercely.

But one day, on the way to Damascus, he met Jesus and his life changed completely. He recognized that he had been resisting God. Above all he understood that Jesus, whom he despised and fought against, was really the Messiah awaited by the Jews, the Son of God risen. Then he turned around. He became and became the apostle Paul. What I longed for no longer mattered.

Philippians 3: 8
And certainly, I still esteem all things as a loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord, for whose sake I have lost everything, and I consider it as rubbish, to win Christ,

Over the centuries, millions of men and women have turned to Jesus Christ to receive forgiveness and a new spiritual life. The conversion is a capital event for the human being, although it is not always as spectacular as that of Pablo. It is characterized by a complete change of interest and behavior centers.

CONCLUSION