I love irony. Don't you?
I think God loves irony too. There's a lot of it in the Bible.
One instance of irony I had never noticed before this morning: Saul's conversion story in Acts 9.
The disciples had been scattered outward from Jerusalem because of widespread persecution following the stoning of Stephen.
Saul, after thoroughly terrorizing the believers around Jerusalem, was now traveling to Damascus.
Why go there?
Damascus was the next big city outside of Jerusalem, about 150 miles away. Quite a few Jews lived there.
It seems reasonable to assume that, knowing quite a few believers had fled Jerusalem, Saul had left the city and was headed to the next likely hub in an effort to stop the spread of the Christian faith.
The New Testament's most successful missionary started out failing as its greatest ANTI-missionary!
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