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Posted on: 3rd Jun 2014
Acts 9:5 (NKJV)
5 And he said, �Who are You, Lord?� Then the Lord said, �I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.�
Reflections:
What�s a goad? A goad is a pointed rod used to make an animal move forward by poking it in the side. Ouch!
Saul of Tarsus (later to become the Apostle Paul) was persecuting the church and resisting God�s plan of salvation through Christ. God tried to get Saul�s attention but he was determined to swim upstream and against God�s flow, so much so that a Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit lost his life by stoning while Paul stood by and gave the order to do so.
Jesus had had just about enough of this and so, while Saul was on his way to persecute more believers, he knocked him off his horse with a blinding light. As a result Saul repented, got saved and was filled with the Holy Spirit.
From then on he remained in the mainstream flow of God�s plan for his life until, many years later, he was beheaded for the faith. We owe much to Paul for his writings to the church.
But, many of us are doing the same as Paul did without even realizing it. We�re resisting the flow of God�s plan for our lives. We�re trying to swim upstream instead of flowing with God. What do I mean?
Many of us are so caught up with ourselves, and the things of this world, thatour position and well being is all we truly think about.
We�re so good at self-justification! For the most part we tell God what we want, in the form of prayer, and we use every Bible verses we can find to demand it from Him. This beloved is swimming upstream. We like Paul are kicking against the goads.
A good piece of advice would be to stop and take stock of our hearts before God knocks us off our self-horse. Let�s turn around today, unconditionally surrender, and jump in the flow of God; truly living for Him and others ... led about by the Holy Spirit �
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