Chosen Vessel
The story of Saul on the road to Damascus to persecute followers of Jesus Christ is found in the book of Acts chapter 9. As the church began to gain momentum in the early days of its founding, antagonists rose up to quell the movement. One of the main of antagonists was a man by the name, Saul of Tarsus. Saul was a Pharisee, a Jew, a Roman citizen, and a possible member of the Sanhedrin. Saul’s mission to Damascus was one that would change his life in a way that even he did not expect.
His initial encounter with Jesus Christ would leave him blind. A blindness that also indicates his previous ways of ignorance when he didn’t know Jesus Christ. Blind, he was eventually led to Damascus where he neither ate nor drank for three days. The Lord sends a disciple in Damascus by the name of Ananias ...
