DAILY READINGS: 1 Samuel 8 to 9:14; Isaiah 49; 2 Cor. 10
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. Acts 26:11
Here is the testimony of the apostle Paul as he stood before Agrippa. How it must have pained the apostle to tell such things. He did not relate them to glorify himself, but rather to glorify the Lord who had delivered such a wretch as he. Centuries later a man who had inflicted untold misery and death upon countless men and women in his slave ship, was gloriously converted, and it was he who wrote the words of the hymn which we so often relate to our own condition, “Amazing Grace.” —W. H. Burnett
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me,
I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see. —John Newton