And last of all He was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. – 1 Corinthians 15:8

I recollect reading a very striking saying of Mr. Bunyan’s. He said he had good reason to believe that, in the generation after him, there would be many more saints than in the one of which he formed a part, and his belief was based upon the fact that, wherever he went, he found that there were so many great sinners that he hoped they would be converted, and become eminent servants of the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, there was a blessed truth at the back of that hope of his; for, very often, where sin has abounded, grace does much more abound; and when the Word of God seems to grow scarce, and the candle of the gospel burns but dimly, we may pray and expect that even then, some may be “born out of due time” to the praise of the glory of that grace which saves as it wills, and often selects the very chief of sinners to be the subjects of His almighty power.

Our Lord still knows how to stop men as He stopped Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus. He, is the man who says that he was “born out of due time;” and he is a wonderful instance of this method of divine interposition. He has in his possession, the letters from the high priest which will enable him to bind the saints, then carry them off to Jerusalem; he is riding towards Damascus, he is within sight of the, city when, in the very midst of his high-handed course of persecution, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself intervenes, and smites him down to the ground. Presently, he rises to pray, and, in his three days’ blindness and fasting, to seek the Lord, and then to find Him, to the salvation of his soul and the joy of his spirit, and thus to become an apostle of that very Savior whom, in his ignorance, he had been persecuting. After such a triumph of divine grace, let us never despair of any sinner however far he may have gone into, sin. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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