Every day of my life I would much rather be employed in the fun of work, than in covering the plague of what ails America, but even in that I have no complaint as daily I work for God and listen to His Holy Spirit to guide all I do to a better Way in Him.
I have to highlight a great deal of the evil in this world to hopefully warn people off from it, which does little good. Sometimes though I am able to do the things I really smile over in recently a fresco painting was restored in Rome which is thought to be the face of Paul of Tarsus or most often called St. Paul.
I had always heard related that Paul was not the most handsome of men, but I find the Paul said to be of the fresco a man of handsome countenance. When I first beheld him, I sat for a number of minutes in silence just looking at him. I had thought perhaps it was just me, but upon showing it to my Mother, she had the same glowing peaceful look on her face for many minutes as she studied the face all of us are so acquainted with in the epic writings the Holy Spirit moved him to.
While numbers of noted people Inspired by God have been lost to antiquity, the blessing which God gave Solomon in Wisdom and knowledge literally changed the world as that information permeated the entire Middle East and as the exiled northern Israelites traveled they in turn civilized the entire world.
Paul is of this caliber of man. He ranks in intellect with DaVinci or Newton in the immense comprehensive mind he had.
Before, he was on his road to Damascus, he was literally one of the most learned religious scholars of his day. This Pharisee zealot was the storm trooper who if possible could have destroyed Christ's message of Salvation, as he was non stop arresting and executing Christians.
In one of the greatest miracles of conversion, Jesus Himself, shown upon Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus, blinded him, and then restored his sight in calling him to spread the Gospel of the Kingdom of God in Jesus being the Key to Salvation, that all who believe on Him, should join with Him in the Father's Kingdom of eternal life.
The zeal which Saul had in kicking against the pricks as Jesus stated in Saul would fail as this was an act of God, was transformed into zeal in spreading this Gospel to all the world.
I do not believe people appreciate Paul in the entirety of his mission in understanding he was one of the most hated men in the world and yet with satan hindering him, he never gave up for a second. Every day was one more revelation to have worked through him so the children of God would understand God even more.
God gave him a medical condition, lest his position would actually corrupt him in being the most utilized man on earth in God's plan of that time. Paul was also not allowed a wife as that would have deterred him from completely investing himself to the mission even though he prayed God for her repeatedly. None of that though once had Paul question God in His Wisdom. He was in essence a number of the Bible's most outstanding characters combined, from Joseph to even Jesus.
He had the most fantastic of power akin to George Washington, and instead chose service to all in complete humility.
In reading the New Testament, one finds the majority of it was written by Paul or one of the people who accompanied him on God's mission. Paul was the equivalent of a doctor of theology, religion, history, psychology and a number of other things, and none of that intellect got in the way like modern theologians have the haughty problem of making things up that are not there or thinking they are more intelligent than everyone else.
Paul's dissertations on Hebrew or Jewish law are the most complete and perfect explanations in both legal, spiritual and religious understanding ever completed in any form in the history of humanity. He didn't just cross every T and dot every I, he did it in God's Spirit three times over. Paul explains everything in every way and every situation that covers the entire form of human live and interaction with God and does it in God's Spirit perfectly.
I was led to read a dissertation of Paul by the Holy Ghost previously before seeing the fresco of him. In it, I smiled at the depth speaking through the generations, because what he was speaking about was the fact that men and women should not have their heads covered when coming before God, because we are God's in perfection and beauty and not under the subjugation of any human in having to have our heads covered in shame.
This completely blows Islam's enslavement of women and men, the covering of Jewish rites and the Vatican subjecting the faithful to caps. Paul in simplicity explains by the Holy Spirit how special people are in being redeemed to God and no authority on earth is supposed to get in the way of that relationship.
Yes the Bible speaks of sinners and the need to repent, which too many people do need to have the fear of God put into them again to behave, but Paul speaks of the child of God, coming to their loving Father who accepts them, dotes on them, studies them and loves them in being redeemed to Him and having the right to come before Him with anything.
The work the Holy Spirit completed through Paul is as telling today as it was 2000 years ago. He mixed it up with the greatest of Greek, Jewish and Roman minds, and, in God's Wisdom overwhelmed them all.
He was a prisoner in chains for the greater part of the ministry he was called to, but in that he went Rome when no other apostle, including Peter, who the Vatican states falsely was the first founder of the Universal church. (That is not Simon Peter, but Simon Pater, the sorcerer recorded in Bible who tried to purchase the gift of the Holy Spirit and was rebuked.
He later arrived in Vaticanus Hills by Rome and founded a religion based upon Christian, Hebrew and pagan systems.)
His mission was to complete as a martyr and the report has it he was crucified upside down by his request as he deemed he was not worthy of being crucified as Christ his Master was.
It is amazing though to me to look upon the face I'm not even worthy to look upon in the immense work the Holy Spirit worked though Paul of Tarsus........not a Jew of the tribe of Judah, but interestingly just like Esther a Benjaminte.
The two greatest human characters in the Bible who saved the Judeaens were not Jewish, but of the tribe of Benjamin, direct brother to Joseph, in their mother, Rachel. One in Esther at Purim was their physical deliverance from death. One in Paul not honored yet was their Spiritual deliverance from eternal death.
What amazing characters I hope to visit sooner than later, Paul of Tarsus and Esther of the tribe of Benjamin.
This has been most enjoyable.
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