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When God Rewrites Your Story: Saul, Grace, and the Spirit’s Disruption

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Explore how God transforms lives in unexpected ways through the story of Saul in Acts 9. A reflection on grace, spiritual transformation, and the power of being found when you feel lost.

What Happens When God Rewrites Your Story?

A Faith Reflection on Acts 9:1–20

The Book of Acts is anything but neat.
It’s a Spirit-fueled story of disruption, conversion, and transformation. If the Gospels tell us what Jesus did, Acts reveals what the Holy Spirit keeps doing—often through the least likely people.

Take Saul.

Saul Wasn’t Seeking God—But God Found Him

In Acts 9, Saul isn’t on a faith journey. He’s not deconstructing. He is the religious system. A zealot enforcing rules with violence.

And then God interrupts.

Blinding light. A divine voice. Silence.
God says, in effect: “So sure you see clearly? Let’s take away your vision for a while.”

Most of us know that kind of moment—when everything we were certain of unravels.

🌀 Reflection Question:

Where have you mistaken your certainty for God’s truth?
What’s the difference between being faithful and being right?

The Holy Spirit Isn’t Tame

The Book of Acts isn’t a church-growth strategy. It’s a testimony to holy disruption.

👉 The Holy Spirit cannot be managed.

She crosses boundaries, calls unlikely people, and reclaims even the most hardened hearts.

And then we meet Ananias—a quiet disciple, likely afraid, hiding from danger.

God says, “Go to Saul.”
Ananias protests, “The one trying to kill us?”
God replies, “Yes. Him.”

And Ananias obeys.

He lays hands on Saul and speaks one word that changes everything:
“Brother.”

Not Enemy. Not Murderer.
Brother.

🌀 Reflection Question:

Who is God asking you to embrace, even if you've written them off?
What would it take to spiritually extend grace to that person?

From Persecutor to Preacher: This Is a Calling Story

Saul’s conversion isn’t just about stopping the harm.
It’s about starting the Gospel.

And not a tame version of faith.
He begins preaching a boundary-breaking, radically inclusive Gospel.

Here’s the truth:

➡️ God didn’t rewrite Saul’s story because he earned it.
God did it because grace interrupts and transforms.

My Own Road to Transformation

I used to build my faith on being right.
Right about the church.
Right about justice.
Right about what faith should look like.

During my first seminary interview, the woman didn’t ask if I was saved. She said simply:
“If you’re here, you must be ready for transformation.”

Then the spiritual lights went out.
Nothing made sense.

And in that silent space, I heard the Spirit whisper:
“I didn’t call you to be perfect. I called you to be mine.”

🌀 Reflection Question:

Where is Jesus meeting you on your road—especially when you think you’re on the right path?

God Is Still Rewriting Stories

God is still in the business of grace-filled disruption.
Still sending us to people we’d rather avoid.
Still healing churches—not polished ones, but the ones limping along, holding out for hope.

So if the light knocks you flat,
If your certainty crumbles and all you have left is blindness—

🌿 You’re not lost.
🌿 You’re being found.

Not because you’re perfect,
But because grace finds you anyway.

Closing Thought:
In your faith journey, may you welcome the Spirit’s interruptions.
May you call “Brother” what once felt like “Enemy.”
And may you trust that even in blindness, God is writing a new story for you.

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