From today’s reading...
…they simply kept hearing it said, ‘The man once so eager to persecute us is now preaching the faith that he used to try to destroy,…’” Galatians 1:23-24
Saul's conversion to Paul is powerful and compelling.
Was he a bad guy who became good or a good guy who misunderstood his calling?
Did he choose to not do a better job of forming his conscience?
Was he brainwashed?
Was he tricked by his Jewish leaders?
Maybe. Maybe not.
I do know that I am no better than Saul or Paul and I know that Paul turned his life around so dramatically that God chose him to write essentially half of the New Testament and give his life to promote God's word correctly, which is the only way we can...
Stay the course.
Keep the faith.
Endure.
Now go sell something.