A Series by Vance Havner
Paul
Who
art thou, Lord? …Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?
Acts 9:5, 6
Paul
did business with the Lord. His was the authentic Who-What experience. Men who
mean business with the Lord are definite and practical: “What comes next? What
shall I do now?” Whatsoever He says, they do.
We
live in a slovenly age, when duty and obedience and discipline have been
relegated to the attic, along with the worn-out parlor lamp and cylinder-record
phonograph. We had better bring them downstairs. We are not doing too well
without them. A generation of unconverted young Sauls kicks against the pricks.
They will not do business with Christ, because to do so He must be confessed
and obeyed as Lord. “Who, Lord? Lord, what?” A lot of sentimental slush about
Jesus forgets that “love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my
all.”
The
young ruler refused to submit to the Lordship of Jesus. Paul started right:
“Who, Lord? Lord, what?” And who ever did greater business with and for His
Lord?
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