Be Still And Know

1 Timothy 1:16 'God had mercy on me so that Christ Jesus could use me as a prime example of his great patience with even the worst sinners. Then others will realise that they, too, can believe in him and receive eternal life.' The apostle Paul never forgot his colourful past. He had been so committed to his Jewish faith that he had gone to extraordinary lengths to destroy the Church. He was convinced that Jesus was the enemy of everything that he held dear and so he enthusiastically threw his energies into trying to crush Christianity. When his life was turned around on the road to Damascus, it changed everything. He came to realise how completely wrong he had been and to see the wickedness of what he had done. He felt that he was the worst possible sinner but all of that changed when he encountered the mercy of God. He knew he could never have deserved God’s love and forgiveness, but he received it anyway, because God is also unfathomably merciful. Mercy is a wonderful thing, but it can be hard for us to