Friday, February 7, 2014

The Blind Eyes Opened

(Romans 7:9-13)
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life
and I died. I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually
brought death.  For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,
deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.  So then, the law is holy,
the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order
that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death,
so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

This is Paul of Tarsus, realizing his wrongful action after God has called him to serve 
Him to preach to the Gentiles.
Before he met the Lord Jesus Christ, Paul was grudgingly went after the disciples of Jesus
Christ and all the Christians. He went from house to house in searched of them, bring them
to prison and executed them.
Paul thinks what he was doing, he was making God a favor and that his intentions was right,
but God has a plan for Paul in correcting him. Paul had an unforgetable encounter with
the Lord Jeus Christ on his way to Damascus Road while going after the followers of the Way. 
This is where Jesus revealed himself to Paul, teaching everything he needs to learn about 
God in serving Him.   (Read Acts 9:1-22)

God opened Paul's eyes to the truth to showed him that what once crooked of Paul's mind,
God makes it straight as Isaiah 55:8 say,  
    For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.

God will help us to open our eyes to the truth if we invite Him in into our lives.
We all have our own inderstading who we are and what we think is right, doing our own
desires that pleased us that it actually bring death to us.
But God in His grace has given us His Son Jesus Christ so that through him we may
become His.
(Rom.8:10-11)
If Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of
righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus Christ from the dead is living
in you, He who raised  Christ from the dead will also give to your mortal bodies through
his Spirit who lives in you.