Acts 26:16

Paul experienced a vision while traveling to Damascus, but it was more than just a fleeting emotional experience; it contained very specific instructions for him. In Acts 26:19, Paul said, "I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision." "Your whole life is to be overpowered or subdued by Me; you are to have no end, no aim, and no purpose but Mine," Our Lord essentially told Paul. "You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go," the Lord further declares to us. (John 15:16).

If we are spiritual beings at all, we get visions of what Jesus wants us to be when we are born again. It is imperative that I acquire the skill of not being "disobedient to the heavenly vision" or questioning its attainability. Merely acknowledging that God has redeemed the world or even knowing that the Holy Spirit has the power to bring all that Jesus accomplished into my life is insufficient. I have to be on the basis of a close relationship with Him. Paul did not receive a doctrine or a message to preach. He was introduced to Jesus Christ in a dramatic, intimate, and powerful way. Acts 26:16, which promises to "make you a minister and a witness," is incredibly powerful. If there were no personal relationship, there would be nothing. Paul's devotion was to a person, not an idea. He truly belonged to Jesus Christ. He lived for nothing else and saw nothing else. According to 1 Corinthians 2:2, "For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified."