Kicking Against the Goads

Song: Trust And Obey

Scripture: Acts 9:1-5

Then the Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads" (Acts 9:5).

Farmers would use goads to break in oxen to plow the ground. To kick against the goad was painful. The goad was used to prod and to prick the ox into submission.

Saul of Tarsus was resisting Jesus. In so doing he was "kicking against the goads." Jesus had been pursuing Saul, prodding and pricking him to bring him to repentance. On the road to Damascus, the stiff-neck of the Pharisee bowed.

Obedience is easy. Disobedience is hard. Stop "kicking against the goads" and obey Jesus.

Jason Cicero