Acts 9:4-5 — Today’s Verse for Wednesday, September 4, 2024

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[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

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Thoughts on Today’s Verse…

When Paul later teaches in his letters that the Church is the Body of Christ (Romans 12:3-4; 1 Corinthians 10:10-16-17; Ephesians 5:23, 29; Colossians 1:18, 24), 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.

My Prayer…

Dear Father, please “Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me, all His wonderful passion and purity; May His Spirit divine, all my being refine; Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me.” In the name of my Savior, I pray. Amen. (From the song by Albert W.T. Orsbom.)

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Today’s Verse is a free daily devotional that includes a Bible verse, thought and prayer.

The Thoughts and Prayer on Today’s Verse are written by Phil Ware.

All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.

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