Scar Story: I was playing football once with a bunch of guys. We had been practicing for this game for weeks—it was against the alumni—those that had come before us… the old dudes. They had never lost.
As the quarter back snapped the ball to start one of our plays, I ran down the line mirroring him and waiting for him to throw a little screen pass at the far end of the line. Then, I was on the ground. The next few minutes were out of a bugs bunny cartoon—swirling stars, everyone standing over me as I lay flat on my back. I got hit hard by I guy twice my size… on my own team. Eleven stitches left a scar trailing down my left eye that sill itches when it rains.
Saul got hit hard—horse-to-ground is a good four feet. But he got hit by a light. For some of us we will work to unearth our true identities over time, but for others, the light will knock us off the horse.
Read Acts 9:1-9
In verse 5 Saul asks “Who are you, Lord.” It’s time for us to do the same. Ask god to reveal to you continually who He is. There is a galaxy of knowledge about him and many of us have never even asked to see Him.
Matthew 7:9-11 says “You parents—if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him.
God give us please the gift of knowing you so we can know ourselves.
As the quarter back snapped the ball to start one of our plays, I ran down the line mirroring him and waiting for him to throw a little screen pass at the far end of the line. Then, I was on the ground. The next few minutes were out of a bugs bunny cartoon—swirling stars, everyone standing over me as I lay flat on my back. I got hit hard by I guy twice my size… on my own team. Eleven stitches left a scar trailing down my left eye that sill itches when it rains.
Saul got hit hard—horse-to-ground is a good four feet. But he got hit by a light. For some of us we will work to unearth our true identities over time, but for others, the light will knock us off the horse.
Read Acts 9:1-9
In verse 5 Saul asks “Who are you, Lord.” It’s time for us to do the same. Ask god to reveal to you continually who He is. There is a galaxy of knowledge about him and many of us have never even asked to see Him.
Matthew 7:9-11 says “You parents—if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him.
God give us please the gift of knowing you so we can know ourselves.
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