DAILY DEVOTIONAL, (WEDNESDAY 25 JANUARY 2017)

Reading the Liturgy Wednesday, January 25, 2017
The Conversion of S. Paul, Apostles

First Reading Acts 22: 3-16
At that time Paul defended himself before the Jews,
"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I was educated with strictness under Gamaliel according to the law of our fathers, so that I was zealous for God just as you all are today. I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death; male and female catch and handed to prison. as both priest and the Council of elders can testify. From them I received letters to brothers brothers in Damascus, and I have been going there for the arrests of God's Way, who were there, and bring them to Jerusalem to be punished. But on my way there, when I was near Damascus, about noon, suddenly flashes of glare from the sky around me. Then I fell down to the ground and I heard a voice saying to me: Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?
I answered, 'Who are you, Lord? His words: I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting. Those who were with me, did see the light,
but the voice of him who says to me, did not they hear. And I said: Lord, what should I do? And the Lord said to me: Arise and go to Damascus. There you will be told everything that was assigned to you. For I can not see because the light is blinding it, then fellow traveling companions took my hand and led me to Damascus. There was a man named Ananias, a devout man who lives according to the law and well spoken of by all the Jews who live there. He stood over me and said: Brother Saul, regain your sight!
And at that very moment I looked up and saw him. Then he said: God of our fathers have made thee to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear the voice that comes out of his mouth. For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. Now, why do you still hesitate? Get up, be baptized and cried out his name, then your sins blotted out.
Thus saith the Lord.
Psalm Ps 117: 1.2
Go into all the world and wartakanlah Gospel.
* Praise the Lord, all nations, megahkanlah him, all the peoples!
* Because of His great love upon us, and the faithfulness of the Lord forever.

Bait Introduction to the Gospel of John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, fruit that remains.

Gospel reading Mark 16: 15-18
On one occasion Jesus rose from the dead appeared to the eleven disciples and said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
And these signs will accompany those who believe: they will drive out demons in my name, they will speak in languages ​​new to them, they will pick up snakes, and even drink poison, they will not be wretched; they shall lay hands on the sick and they will recover. "
Thus the Gospel of the Lord.

Devotional.
Line someone's life changed drastically and sometimes suddenly, unexpectedly someone got a gift of luxury cars from the bank. In fact that's the only one that balances the money is not much. Or a girl who had long menjomblo suddenly see junior high school friend at the night market, and then they make a pact granted, Within months they were married. We also sometimes experience when undergoing daily tasks with quiet calm, suddenly gain a new task from your boss to get out of the island.
Today we celebrate the feast of the conversion of St. Paul. Paul's conversion also occurs with a sudden. When Paul went to Damascus, there dikepalanya just wanna chase - chase the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, but events of his encounter with Jesus changes everything - everything. It happened also very suddenly, without introduction and without introduction. For intense spiritual event like that, Paul also had not held a special preparation, such a retreat. Initiative, or a life-changing pemprakarsa and agenda as well as the events of Paul's life, at all is God himself. God who wants change and the fate of Paul's life because God has determined to be a "tool of choice for - Me to preach the name - Ku to the people of other nations"
Paul was aware that he could be an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ at all bu
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