BUT GOD does.
BUT GOD will.
BUT GOD can.
Because
JESUS DID.
JESUS DID the impossible
over and over again
and it still wasn't enough for some
to BELIEVE,
so they tried so hard to
prove JESUS wrong.
BUT JESUS
didn't have to prove anyone
that they were wrong
because
HE just did what only JESUS said HE would do.
HE walked the earth
once again
after being
hung on a cross
held up my nails
holding on through the pain.
JESUS DID what no man
could ever do.
HE ROSE
for me & for you & for everyone else.
There he was.
Saul
Hater of JESUS and anyone who followed JESUS.
BUT JESUS
showed up~
“Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”*
Could you imagine?
There you are.
Living your life.
And then the ONE who you are persecuting shows up
as a LIGHT so bright that you become blind.
It is way worse then getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar.
BUT Saul knows. He had to know
as he asked~
"Who are you, LORD?”*
And JESUS answered~
“I am JESUS, whom you are persecuting”*
Yikes!
You meet your master.
There HE is.
The ONE who was born to save you.
The ONE who you may DOUBT at times that HE is really on your side.
The ONE who so LOVES you that HE would die for you.
The ONE who is so very real,
who just wants to become so real in your life,
just as became so REAL
when
HE anointed Saul with a mission~
"This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles
and their kings and to the people of Israel"*(Acts 9)
Could you imagine
that the worse of the worst
admitted that he was the worse of the worst,
because he knew himself so well.
BUT it was because
JESUS knew Saul so well
that
HE chose to save the worse of the worst~
"Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: CHRIST JESUS came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst" (I Timothy 1:15).
Saul encounters the LOVE of JESUS CHRIST
that covers him with FORGIVENESS that fits like a glove
that he wore for the rest of the life
as he
became one of "them", those whom he used to persecute.
He was born anew with the name of Paul
who penned 13 books of the bible.
For once you encounter JESUS,
who saved even the worse of the worst,
you are never the same
because you are never the same~
"This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person.
The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" (2 Corinthians 5:17).
I don't know how Paul did it.
He didn't carry around his past like a scarlet letter
because JESUS looked beyond his past
giving him an everlasting future.
Are you wearing the FORGIVENESS of JESUS?
If JESUS could FORGIVE Saul, how could JESUS not FORGIVE
you or I from our "old self" doings.
Saul to Paul.
You to New.
"Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead" (Philippians 3:17)
How could you not
LOVE JESUS,
the ONE who has
you &
"ME ON YOUR MIND"
(listen to the song below)