Syria

I'm very passionate about politics and world affairs.  As a general rule I tend to keep my politics off of Facebook and my blog.  I have friends on all sides of the political spectrum and I choose not to engage in debates, nor do I want to anger or offend my friends who may not agree with me.  That being said . . . this is NOT a political post :) 

Every time I hear the word "Damascus" I think of the meeting Saul had with the risen Christ on the road to Damascus.   I think of Annanias and His obedience.  I think of God changing Saul's name to Paul because Saul had died and became a new creation.

The other day I was thinking about the current situation in Syria.  I was reading reports of one of the world's oldest Christan churches being destroyed.  In that moment I thought of Saul's conversion.

As I'm praying for the people of Syria, the leaders of Syria and the world leaders who are deciding on what level they want to be involved I was reminded of that meeting on the road to Damascus.

Along with my continued prayers for those mentioned above I am praying the leaders of Syria, specifically President Asaad and other decision makers, I am praying they would encounter the risen Christ in such a way their only choice is to fall flat on their face and worship Him.  I am praying for a conversion so dramatic it would change a dictator who has poisoned his own people to a man who follows Jesus and loves the world the way He does.  

Saul was a "Jew of Jews" and was so zealous in his faith he persucuted the first followers of Christ and was present at the death of the first martyr, Stephen.  God changed Saul's heart and renamed him Paul. Paul went on to be a man who wrote most of the New Testament.  

2000 years ago in Syria God completely changed a man and caused his life to do a 180.  He's done it before and I'm praying that, by a miracle only He can accomplish, it happens again!