Today’s Podcast
- Thanks for joining me today for “A Little Walk with God.” I’m your host Richard Agee.
- Have you ever been in a conversation where people were gossipping about someone and all of a sudden that person showed up? Awkward!
- Scripture
- Acts 9:4-6
- The Lord: Saul, Saul, why are you attacking Me?
Saul: Lord, who are You?
Then he hears these words:
The Lord: I am Jesus. I am the One you are attacking. Get up. Enter the city. You will learn there what you are to do.
- Devotional
- It happens more often that people want to admit.
- Sometimes it happens real time – person walks up behind and hears the conversation
- Sometimes the person walks into the middle of the conversation and everyone gets quiet, they still know something is up
- Sometimes the word just gets back and they know who said what
- Relationships are destroyed as much as reputations are destroyed often by untruths
- That’s what was happening in Paul’s life
- Persecuting Christians
- Telling the Jews things about them that were not true
- Telling stories about Jesus that were not true
- Spreading lies and rumors that despoiled Jesus’ reputation
- Jesus stepped behind him one day to interrupt his conversation
- Saul, why are you attacking Me?
- What are you saying about Me?
- What are you doing to My followers?
- What have you been doing behind My back
- Why don’t you say these things to My face
- And you know when we get ourselves caught in those embarrassing situations where we know we’re gossiping and shouldn’t, there are always consequences
- Paul got caught and was embarrassed by his wrong actions
- Fortunately did something about it
- Repented for his wrongdoing
- Learned of the tasks Jesus had for him to do
- Carried them out enthusiastically
- Stopped persecuting and became the persecuted
- Gained life and lost his
- Became the most prolific writer in the new testament
- It happens more often that people want to admit.
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