Most kids’ favorite Bible stories are like Adam and Eve, David and Goliath, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, Daniel and the Lions Den, Jonah and the Whale, Jesus’ birth, etc. Stories that are filled with wonder and excitement. Stories that seem unbelievable in nature, where the main character seems almost superhuman or experiences something supernatural.
So it shouldn’t surprise me that for as long as he has been able to express what his favorite Bible story is, Matt, my nine-year-old son, has cited the story of Saul’s conversion found in Acts 9. It’s unbelievable. Something supernatural happens. It’s just not a “kids” story.
It’s unbelievable. After Stephen appeared before the Sanhedrin, the people drug him out of the city and stoned him. “Saul was there, giving approval to his death.” He later “breathed out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples.” In fact, when he was knocked on his rear, Saul was on his way to Damascus to see if he could find any Christ-followers and put them in prison. This was one bad dude!
It was supernatural. A bright light, brighter than the sun, caused he and all of his companions to fall to the ground and he heard a voice speak to him, but saw no one. He was blinded for three days. After being filled with the Holy Spirit, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again.
Cool story. Here’s the point. If Christ could love and care so much for a person that instigated and approved of murderous violence against believers, that He would reach out, speak to, save, and fill with the POWER of the Holy Spirit, then set on the right path, send out to preach the Gospel to “the ends of the earth”, and use to write most of the New Testament (Saul later became Paul), Christ can love and care for anybody, regardless of what they’re doing, where they’re doing it, or how “bad” they are!
Jesus loves you (right where you’re at) and there’s NOTHING you can do about it!
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