What was Saul's response to the grace of God on the Damascus road?
Saul of Tarsus succumbed immediately to the grace of God on the Damascus road. His response was humble submission, asking, 'Who art thou, Lord?' He was a seeking sinner saved by grace, now ready to do whatever God wanted him to do.
Les teaches that God could have zapped Saul on the road to Damascus, but instead He retreated into His sovereignty and by grace poured out mercy, sparing and saving him. Saul succumbed immediately to that grace. His response was, 'Who art thou, Lord?'—a humble seeking sinner saved by grace, now ready to do whatever God wanted. God told Ananias that this man would be sent far hence to the Gentiles and would suffer for His name's sake. Saul/Paul later suffered greatly, yet never slowed down in his fervor for getting the Gospel out to pagan Gentiles. His grace bestowed on him was not in vain.
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.