At the Feet of a Young Man

Today's reading: 2 Chronicles 21-23; Acts 7:41-60


Acts 7:58 and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Saul, who would become known as Paul the apostle didn't start off on the right foot. While he didn't throw any stones at Stephen, the first martyr for Christ, he consented to the action and stood by watching over the coats of the elders. He was just as guilty as they were. If you and I were going to choose a man for the special duty of writing most of the New Testament we would have looked right past Saul because he was obviously against everything Jesus stood for. But history tells us that God doesn't look at people the way we do. Long before that day when Saul was watching the coats by his feet God had chosen him to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Now if a man like Saul can be changed and go from being a murderer to an apostle then it's possible not only for God to change our life but to do extraordinary things through us too. This verse also helps us see that when it comes to people we can't see what's going on inside of them and we don't know the plans that God has for them and it makes me wonder how many people we've written off and judged as unworthy when all along God has been working unseen in their life preparing them for the day when they would become one of His children. The point is simple don't write anyone off as being too far gone to experience the grace of God, even if that someone is you.