What Are You Doing?

Now get up and go into the city and you will be told what to do. -Acts 9:6 (NIV)

We are first introduced to Saul when Stephen is being stoned. Witnesses to the stoning lay their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul. Saul then begins to destroy the church, going from house to house, dragging people to jail, and breathing murderous threats against the Lord's disciples.

In today's suggested reading, Saul is on his way to Damascus to round up any Christians there and take them back to Jerusalem as prisoners.  Suddenly, a light from heaven flashes around him. He falls to the ground and hears Jesus say to him, "Why are you persecuting me? Now get up and go into the city and you will be told what you must do."

In his study on the Acts of the Apostles, William Barclay writes that "up until now, Saul had been doing what he liked, what he thought best, what his will dictated. From this time forward, Saul would be told what to do.

Christians are men and women who have ceased to do what they want to do and who have begun to do what Christ wants them to do."

May God grant you the grace to do what Christ wants you to do today.





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Tomorrow's readings are Job 5, Psalm 108, and Acts 10-11