Miles to go before I sleep

Robert Frost once wrote the words, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.  And miles to go before I sleep."

The concept of traveling "miles" before "sleeping" would not have surprised the Apostle Paul. 

Paul.  The man who wrote most of the New Testament was once called Saul.  As Saul he was born a Roman citizen.  Jewish, he was learned in the Scriptures and felt that "The Way", this growing group of people who claimed Jesus had risen from the dead and truly was the Son of God, was heresy.

He felt it his DUTY to squelch the movement, to wipe it off the face of the map, before it grew too strong. 

Saul was there when Stephen was stoned to death.

And when Saul learned that the town of Damascus had become a center for the early Christians, he asked permission to travel there, and bring those practicing Christianity back to face trial.But on the road to Damascus he had an encounter with Jesus.  One that would change his life dramatically.  Once Saul met Jesus his whole life changed.  He became a new person.  He became PAUL.

As Paul, this man who had once hunted Christians and wanted them wiped OFF the map traveled over 15,000 miles all across the map, in order to spread the gospel.  He endured beatings, imprisonment, shipwrecks and finally death (by beheading) because HE BELIEVED.

As believers WE TOO are supposed to be transformed.  Like Paul, our lives should look different than they did before we met Jesus.

God is not content for us to KNOW the truth - yet not SHARE it.

In his letter to the Romans, Paul says this: "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes:  first to the Jew, then to the Gentine.  For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed - a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: 'The righteous will live by faith.'" - Romans 1:16-17

Friends what are you doing to share your faith?