Acts 9:5-6 “And he said, "Who are You, Lord?" Then the Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads." (6) So he, trembling and astonished, said, "Lord, what do You want me to do?" Then the Lord said to him, "Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
The above passage of scripture describes Paul’s response to encountering the power of the Lord Jesus. As we can see from this passage, Paul was trembling, and if you read the context of the passage, there can be no doubt that Paul was fearful as he experienced this encounter with the Lord Jesus. In relating this account later in his life, Paul describes his colleagues as also being fearful at the time, even though they couldn’t see anything (Acts 22:9). We also learn an important truth from this passage, in that it was Paul’s spirit that stood trembling before the Lord, for his body was in a comatose state on the ground during this encounter. The scripture states that as believers, we are to serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling (Psalm 2:11). And so, from both these accounts in scripture, we can clearly see that believers tremble as a result of their reverential fear of the Lord, when they encounter the power of the Holy Spirit.
Michael E.B. Maher
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