Baffled

“Yet Saul grew more and more powerful and baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah.”

Acts 9:22

Have you ever been baffled by someone else’s words or behavior?

Saul, now Paul, was an educated man steeped in the knowledge of the Law and the Prophets and taught by some of the best of his day.

But it was his conversion and the subsequent revelation given to him by the Holy Spirit of that same Law and Prophetic books that ‘turned on’ the switch of understanding for Paul.

He did not suddenly have new information – but he did suddenly have new revelation.

God brought life to Pauls’ knowledge and the scriptures Paul knew and though he understood so well took on new meaning and clarity for him.

He now saw in those same scriptures what he had not seen before.

He now saw what the unconverted Jews did not see.

That is what baffled them and still baffles men today.

God is still opening the spiritual eyes of men and woman today.

Perhaps you are praying for someone like that today.

Don’t give up – continue in prayer for them!