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When your Heart Recognises Him
Someone posed an interesting question the other day: did Saul really have a choice on the road to Damascus when Jesus appeared to him?
As Saul travelled, Jesus revealed Himself and said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting” Acts 9:5. It was a powerful and undeniable encounter. But it also made me think about Jeremiah 24:7, where God says:
“I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord.”
I believe Saul recognised Jesus because God had already given him a heart that could recognise the truth when it stood before him. Saul was zealous for God, even though he was sincerely wrong. Yet when Jesus revealed Himself, something within Saul recognised the voice of the One he had truly been seeking all along.
I think it is still the same today.
You can share the love of God with many people, but not everyone will recognise Him as Lord. Two people can hear the same gospel message and respond completely differently. One heart softens and responds, while another remains hardened or indifferent.
Jesus said:
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” John 10:27
That does not mean we stop sharing the gospel. It reminds us that salvation is ultimately the work of God in the human heart. We sow the seed, but God is the One who opens blind eyes and gives hearts that recognise Him.
Saul’s story also gives hope for those we pray for. The church would never have expected a persecutor of Christians to become Paul the apostle. Yet God was already at work in ways nobody could see.
Sometimes the people who seem furthest away are only one encounter with Jesus away from complete transformation.
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