Pure Pleasing
“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,” Galatians 1:15-16 NKJV http://bible.com/114/gal.1.15-16.nkjv If the state of believers’ pious living before the call to salvation and service has anything to do with the motivation for the call, generals in the kingdom of God would be hard to find. Apostle Paul was a general among his contemporaries, not because of his antecedents. He was a general because he distinguished himself as someone who was fully committed to pleasing God with full acknowledgement of the baggage of consequences. When it pleased God to call His chosen out of the dungeon of self-will, there is therefore no barricade to the extent that the righteous can become useful as divine vessel without the influence of self. “..when it pleased God...that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I di...