Was Blind But Now I See

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is Acts 9:1-22.  As usual, I encourage you to read the passage yourself first and see what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help, then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

Acts 9:1-19a (NIV)
1  Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest
2  and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
3  As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.
4  He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

On verses 1-19a:  As we read about Saul’s amazing conversion to Christianity, we see that God is full of grace and mercy. He does not treat His enemies as they deserve. Instead of destroying His enemies for their sins, His first choice is to woo them to His side. That’s what Jesus did with Saul, and that’s He does with us too.

我不要了

提摩太後書 4:6-7

6 我現在被澆奠,我離世的時候到了。

7 那美好的仗我已經打過了,當跑的路我已經跑盡了,所信的道我已經守住了。

「我不要了!」是父親肝癌離世的最後一句話,他不想要急救,他想要回天家。保羅在提後4:6-7一段話詮釋了父親的一生。

整理父親的遺物,看著父親的身分證,「父」欄上註記著「不詳」,我們家人都不清楚我的祖父是誰。從小我和姊姊們、弟弟心中有疑惑,但未曾發問一直到現在,這是父親一生的痛,隨著父親的過世,這個疑問似乎不再重要;但是,它卻標記了父親一生的「成就」,父親不是完人,他卻努力在逆境中孵育兒女成長,且成為許多人的祝福。

父親常分享年輕時在電台工作,喝醉酒、肚子痛,在地上打滾、認罪悔改的經歷,因著這個呼召,讓他全心全意擺上自己在教會、家庭和工作。父親是教會裡的孩子王,說起聖經故事,孩子們鴉雀無聲、聚精會神,主日學的服事,從幼兒班到松年班,班班皆有他的身影,父親的身影深埋在許多弟兄姊妹對教會的懷念裡。