The story of Paul, possibly the most effective missionary ever to bring the Gospel, started like this, in Acts 9:1-2: “Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.”
By the end of Acts 10, this same man is being sought in several cities for evangelizing. His former cohorts, the Jewish religious elite, wanted to kill him. He went from hunter to hunted, as intent on preaching Christ crucified as he had been on stamping out the Christian church.
Amazing grace indeed! God can turn the most darkened soul back to him. He can forgive me and use me to his ends; he can do this with anyone. No one is beyond his reach, or his love
It’s a reason to keep praying for people. And it’s a reason not to judge, but to hope.
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