Heralds Digest

  “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 https://www.bible.com/114/gal.1.15-16.nkjv The conflicts arising from an increase in knowledge have always confronted the household of faith. Even Abraham, the world-acclaimed father of faith, was confronted with this crisis in relationship with the affairs and matters in his life. The more life is exposed to facts and figures about any issue of interest, like health, social welfare, rate of employment, etc, the less it becomes for anyone to act by faith. Having acted and ruled by strong conviction about social and religious lifestyles of his days, Paul had little or no basis to shift ground until his encounter with Jesus. Unfortunately, many people are being called by the Lord out of an established convictions based on facts and fi...

“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...