Did you know that in the conversion of Saul, scales fell from the eyes of Saul, and his blindness was healed?

This ‘parable’ is Jesus teaching us we are ‘blind’ without Him!   We can not see, unless we allow Him to remove the ‘blindness’ and open our eyes.   He teaches us through parables, so that we may be ‘open’ to His teachings.   His life, is hidden!   It is revealed to those who wish to know Him!   He does the revealing!   So through prayer, we come to know Christ.  He speaks of prayer and its power, in Matthew 7:7   Telling us we must ask…to receive…to seek that we may find…knock and it will be ‘opened’!   Just as Saul’s eyes were opened, when He was baptized, and ‘converted’!  Saul becoming Paul a ‘new creature in Christ!’

Book of Acts : Chapter 9 Verses  15-18

15)”The Lord said to him: “You must go!   This man is the instrument I have chosen to bring my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel.   16) I myself shall indicate to him how much he will have to suffer for my name.”   17) With that Ananias left.   When he enter the house he laid his hands on Saul and said, “Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the way here, to help you recover your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”   18) Immediately something  like scales fell from his eyes and he regained his sight.  He got up and was baptized, 19) and strength returned to him after he had taken food.”

Within the above writing, we can see Jesus telling us we are ‘blind’ without him.    For though Saul thought he saw life as it should be, Jesus called him, and saved him from his  sin.    Awakened by the experience, Saul decided to obey!   Saul empowered by the ‘Holy Spirit’ through baptism, becomes alive!   For he was indeed dead.   His life was empty, and without blessing.   However, because Jesus is also God incarnate, He saw and knew the passion he had for the Jewish faith, and chose him, and his ‘passion’ and zeal for the faith to be a blessing to all mankind.

After his conversion from the Jewish faith into Christianity, our LORD changed Saul’s name to Paul.   Because our LORD changes us into ‘new creatures’ this change in name also signifies the ‘change’ of the man into a new ‘creature in Christ’!   Our Lord has many messages within His parables.   They all have deep meaning and can be revealed through prayer and devotion to our LORD.

We also see the compassion of Christ, in that He (Christ) does not keep Saul ‘blind’ but opens not only His eyes, but his heart.   Through out the readings of Paul we see his great love;  Jesus Christ revealed !