As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?
Who are you, LORD? Saul asked. I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting ," He replied. Act 9:3-5
We should never under estimate the power of a positive understanding. It makes a great difference in terms of what we attract both from God and man.
In God, His promises are yes and amen in Christ Jesus. There is nothing we desire that He cannot give to us. But often times we are limited by our own understanding of Him.
Our attitude towards anything is a function of our understanding of that thing.
The life of Saul who later became Paul at conversion does attest to this truth.
Paul's understanding of who Jesus was, was what informed his decision towards the early Church. He, also like other rulers never understood Jesus.
They did not believe He was God in the form of man. This simple reality led him to persecute Jesus, by persecuting His disciples. But when he encountered Jesus on His way to Damascus, his understanding of Jesus changed and this led to the change of his attitude towards God's people.
He moved from persecuting Jesus before the people of Jerusalem to propagating Jesus before the whole world.
Friends if anything most change in our lives, we have to ask Him to either change our understanding in regards to that thing or better still ask Him to deepen it.
God in His infinite wisdom has made life and placed the understanding of it as a measurement in determining what we get from it.
My prayer for every one of us today is that we will grow in our understanding of Him.
The level of our spirituality in Him is measured by the debt of our understanding of Him.
And the debt of our understanding of Him determines the exploit we will do in Him.
You can never achieve anything in God above your understanding of who He is.
Prayer;
Oh LORD! Increase my understanding of who you are, and what on earth I'm here for.
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