Acts 9:3-6
3 As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. 4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. 6 “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

Saul, a well-known persecutor of Christians, becomes Paul, apostle of God, in this one moment. This is the moment that all believers go through at some point in their lives–when they ask God, “Who are you?” and He answers. What a watershed moment, what a powerful change! And yet, this story isn’t just Biblical–it happens to all of us who have come to love Jesus and worship God.

For some of us, our conversion moment (our Road to Damascus moment, if you will) comes in childhood, with a simple, toddling foray down to the front of the church to tell the minister what we have decided. Some of us, like Saul, spend years fighting before finally deciding to give this Jesus guy a shot.

But no matter how you come to Jesus, no matter what you’ve done, said, or thought, He still seeks reconciliation with you if you haven’t already. That’s the amazing thing about God; He knows us and loves us, despite all the railing and whining we might have done toward Him over the years (*raises a guilty hand*). And He does everything He can to extend love toward us. The only thing we have to do is accept it. Then, once we do that, He guides us and helps us know “what we must do,” as Jesus says to Paul. This is indeed what all believers go through…learning to hear and trust God.