Hope In Amazing Grace

Acts 9.1-19: How can you and I in a post-Christian society have steadfast hope? The apostle Paul’s story of conversion gives us the answer. Paul, known as Saul before he comes to know Christ personally by faith, was filled with the desire to threaten and slaughter Christians. It literally was the air he breathed. He was the foremost of sinners in the sense that he was tearing down the work of God. Yet God was merciful and showed His patience in saving Saul in a sudden and unexpected conversion. This is for the sake of the church that you and I would have hope that God can change sinners in our world and spheres of influence today and that as believers we must remember that God can forgive any sin. We must not get so got up in bemoaning the actions of the world and forget God’s mission to save sinners. The world is going to be the world, just as Saul was being Saul, but God saved Saul and who knows who God will mercifully save today. So, let us have hope in our God who sent Jesus to save sinners.