The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Acts 18:9-11,
“One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: ‘Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.’ So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.”
As Paul is in Corinth and preaching the gospel message, the Lord speaks to him one night. I note the communication from the Lord is a verbal statement. Luke doesn’t mention if it was part of a two-way, broader conversation Paul had with the Lord or just simply this statement, but clearly this is not Paul having an “intuition” or “leading” or “feeling”. This is one person (the Lord) verbally speaking to another (Paul) just as any of us would have over the phone or face to face with another.
I have never had the Lord speak directly to me like this and I wonder what Paul’s reaction was. I suspect his reaction would be based on how often the Lord spoke to him. Was it just the few times we read of in Scripture or was there an ongoing dialog that went on for years?
Regardless, I find these comments very fascinating and wonderful as they represent a connection of the Lord with his people, a connection of heaven with planet earth. The great divide spanned between this lost and fallen world with its Creator, physical life in the here-and-now with the Eternal. A connection between life today and the resurrection to come!
Awesome to think about isn’t it?!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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