Grace for the Greatest Sinner

Reading: Acts 9:1-19, 1 Timothy 1:12-17

Devotional

If God can save Saul—the man who dragged Christians from their homes, who stood by approvingly as Stephen was stoned, who made it his mission to destroy the church—then no one is beyond the reach of His grace. Absolutely no one. Not the worst sinner you can imagine. Not the person who's hurt you most deeply. Not even you, with all the secrets you carry and the sins you can't seem to shake.

Paul never forgot where he came from. He called himself the "worst of sinners," not out of false humility, but out of genuine amazement that God would choose him. This memory didn't paralyze him with shame—it propelled him into passionate service. When you truly grasp how much you've been forgiven, you can't help but overflow with grace toward others. Your past doesn't disqualify you; in God's economy, it becomes the very thing that equips you to extend radical grace to others.

Reflection Question: Who in your life seems "unreachable" by God's grace, and how might God be calling you to be an instrument of His love toward them?

Action Step: Think of someone who has hurt you or someone you've written off as beyond change. Do something tangible today to extend grace to them—offer forgiveness, pray blessing over them, or reach out with genuine kindness. Let your transformed life become a testimony of grace.

"There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe." — Robert Louis Stevenson