The Message of the Messiah

UV 3743/10000 The Message of the Messiah And he said, “ The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, ( and to progressively understand His plan with clarity and power) and to see the Righteous One ( Jesus Christ, the Messiah) and to hear a message from His own mouth. Acts 22 v 14 The blinding of Saul and the opening of the vision of Paul was followed by these words spoken by Ananias, the faithful cobbler who lived on the street called Straight. Indeed, till we walk and live on the street called Straight and Narrow, we too are blinded by the world and its knowledge to the truth. It takes the Truth personified, Jesus to end our blindness, restore our vision so we can see God in all that we do and experience. We are anointed by the Holy Spirit to be able to see the Righteous One who makes us righteous by His sacrifice. We hear the message from His own mouth. The sword of the word of God that is in His mouth, as mentioned in the book of Revelation, begins to penetrate our hearts and sets us free from all chains, bondages of the past, of unbelief. Faith is a progressive realization of the plan that God has for each of us. We do not see, know or understand all of it. We do not see the entire stairway to heaven like Jacob but we see a step we need to take to walk at the same pace as our pace setter Jesus. As we grow older and more mature in our faith, it becomes more clear and the power of God seizes us even as the power of sin ceases in us. We desire to walk into our God ordained destiny, step by step, day by day, moment by moment. Jesus walks alongside us holding our hand. Hearing the message from His own mouth transformed Saul into Paul. His mistaken anger and zeal to persecute the followers of Jesus evaporated and was replaced by the zeal to make the name of Jesus and His being the Way, the Truth and the Life, the Messiah prophesied well ahead of time to save both Jews and Gentiles. The zealous Jews like Saul expected a Jewish Messiah not a Messiah for even their persecutors, the Gentiles of all nations. When Saul’s flawed perspective was corrected by the vision and the message of Jesus and that led him into his destiny, to be the most effective of the apostles who left his footprint all over the then known world, Europe and Asia Minor. We, too need a first hand experience and encounter with the Risen Christ, listen to His word to know and to be able to walk in accordance with God’s will for our lives, to do all that He intends us to do for Him in this lifetime and to enter our eternal destiny with God in Christ. Christ is our constant companion in this life and our transport into eternity. His name and His word are the password that enable us to pass from death to life, from darkness to light, from untruth to truth, from bondage to freedom.