Too far gone.
Been praying for years and it just won’t happen.
He’s too bad. Too lost. Too broken. Too angry. Too far away.
Really?
I can only imagine that is how Saul is described by believers.
Stephen has just died a horrible death. The cloaks of his accusers are laid at the feet of young Saul, who completely agreed with the killing (Acts 8:1). Saul goes everywhere to destroy the budding church, from house to house dragging both men and women into prison.
What they didn’t know is that God saw a scene far different. He saw the destiny He had placed on this man’s heart from the moment of conception.
Eventually Saul became Paul, one of the greatest voices in Christianity, a man humbled by his past and lifted high by a God who stopped him in his tracks to remind him of his purpose.
Maybe you are praying for a “Saul”. Addicted or lost or angry or broken or seemingly far outside God’s reach.
Maybe you are a Saul. Not realizing that God sees what people cannot.
Today look beyond the constrictions of what people say or believe about you or the one you love to remember a God who reaches into the darkest or most broken heart to rescue His own. To set their feet on a path far different than they ever thought they’d walk.
Rejoice in that!
Lift up your heart up in praise as “Saul” becomes Paul as you place your loved one or your own heart in the hands of a God who sees you.
I am praying for my husband to be a Paul and have that Dacamus Road experience and come back to God and come home to me. Isn’t God just wonderful to answer our prayers. I know that my marriage is restored on the solid rock of Jesus. I am just waiting on God’s perfect timing. Thank you for this blog.
Thank you, Suzie. I sometimes forget there is hope! What seems beyond changing is in God’s hands.
My husband eight years after seemingly walking the life of a Christian for 7 years told me “I’m not going to church anymore and reverted back to his old selfish, mean spirited self. I didn’t know what to do. I had no control but trusted in God’s word and held on remembering that I still had to be and do the Christian things so our kids could see the truth. No matter of nagging or prodding changed him and it forced me to trust God nd believe that he could and would restore this prodigal son. Two years ago we met a stranger at a grocery store that God placed there who spoke to be husband about the war and God’s purpose for his life and my husband returned to God the father (AMEN) and restored the Godly order in our household. I ask for prayers for my middle son as he has seen both sides and is choosing to walk with sin or in his words “doing it his way”. I see much pain ahead but am trusting God’s word “train a child in the way they should go and we they are old they will not depart from it.” Please pray for our family.