Devotion 11/14, Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me
When the light from heaven flashed around him, Saul fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
“Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.
“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. Acts 9:4-5
When Paul later teaches in his letters that the Church is the Body of Christ, he isn’t being theoretical. The Church IS Jesus’ presence, his Body alive and at work in the world. What is done to the Church as a collective group of people is done to Jesus. What is done to individual Christians is done to their Savior. Jesus made this clear to Paul, then known as Saul, by emphasizing that Saul’s persecution of believers was also persecution of Jesus
“Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” Jesus is present in the world today through his people! The saying is true: the only Jesus many will see today is the Jesus they see through you and me.
Dear Father, please let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me, all His wonderful passion and purity. Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me. In the name of my Savior, I pray. Amen.
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