_________________Acts 9:18__
“Br-other Saul, the Lord Jesus, who app-eared to you on your way here has sent me to you to regain your sight and to
be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
Without being conscious of it,
I guess I have always seen the conversion of Saul into Paul
as his being knocked off
his horse. I
had never real-ly recognized this as an in-dispensable part of a single story. AT first held back by fear and doubt, (“You want me to WHAT, Lord?”)
Anan-ias is the indispensable second actor in Saul’s conversion. And we have a repetition of Jesus’s command: “Unbind him…” The interaction of the human and the Divine. God begins and then we can (and must) play our part. Without that the healing is not complete. This pat-tern is seen in each and every instance of recovery from alcoholism for sure!
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