NOTES for Act 9:5

The way to Christ for practically every person is briefly exposed in these words. Meeting with Him is always unexpected; we don’t recognize God, Who it seems, we look for, without Whom we are tormented and without whom we suffer. Paul was sure that he protects truth from astray and abandoners, He went to defend his God. And when God addressed him, he asked this unique question, which every person looks for the answer. Who are thou, Lord? Who are Thou? World’s energy, a mob of idols, which is easy and more comfortable to worship, or maybe something abstract and distant, not participating in the life of the world in general and of a concrete person in particular? Who is God – that’s what disturbs and worries man. Paul is the first to receive the answer in his simplest and most artless aspect. God has nothing to hide from us, He is ready to manifest Himself - Jesus, whom we studiously and consistently persecute, whom we don’t want to acknowledge. In that period, a lively testimony was necessary for man to believe, and today also it is one of the simplest ways to tell somebody about Christ. But now that the Bible is accessible practically everywhere, how often people forgo the genuine source in order not to listen in any way: "I am Jesus ". We try to find any other answer to the main question, applying to that all our strengths. It is hard to kick against the pricks – says the Lord. Not only hard, unbearably difficult, but we, with obstinacy deserving a better use, are trying to find a way, where there is no place for the God, Who become Man, crucified, died and resuscitated; the God, Who comes to each and says: " I am Jesus ". Although, if going through Paul's way, we accepted this answer quite as he did, the world would have been completely different.