In February of 1971, a man named Edwin Robinson from Falmouth, Maine sharply jack-knifed his tractor-trailer to avoid hitting a car sliding across the roadway. As a result of severe head trauma caused by the accident, Robinson lost both his vision and his hearing.
On June 4, 1980, 62-yearold Robinson was unexpectedly struck by a bolt of lightning. After lying stunned and unconscious for about 20 minutes, he woke to find both his sight and hearing restored![1]
Sounds like the apostle Paul, doesn’t it? Except in opposite! In the story of Paul’s conversion in Acts 22, Paul was on the road to persecute a group of Christians near Damascus, when right about noon, a bright light flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard the voice of the Lord, the voice of Jesus challenging his mission…