Excerpted from “The Spiritual Renewal Bible” by Steve Arterburn

There are important moments in life’times when we discover that God isn’t as we thought he was’when we must choose whether or not we will surrender to God. These are usually times of crisis, situations that can bring about changes in our entire life direction. These moments can either destroy us, or they can forever turn the course of our lives in a much better direction.

Saul of Tarsus had such a moment. After Jesus’ ascension, Saul set out to rid the world of Christians. ‘As he was nearing Damascus on his mission, a brilliant light from heaven suddenly beamed down upon him! He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, ‘Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?’I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting! Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you are to do.”[Saul] found that he was blind. So his companions led him by the hand to Damascus. He remained there blind for three days. And all that time he went without food and water’ (Acts 9:3-6, 8-9).

This event produced a severe crisis for Saul. He had been certain that his religious zeal against Jesus and his followers was what God had expected of him. But suddenly the risen Messiah, Jesus, spoke to him, and then Saul was blind! In his physical blindness, Saul came to see that he had been spiritually blind to the truth about God. His response was to seek God. In response, God healed his eyes as well as the blindness that had kept him from accepting Jesus as Messiah. The persecutor Saul became the apostle Paul, one of the greatest leaders of the Christian faith.

We you sincerely seek God, he promises to reveal himself to you, showing you that you have been blind to the truth. At such moments of crisis, you need to surrender to God. Then he can heal your blindness and lead you to spiritual renewal.

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