<p>13:11 <i>And now, the hand of the Lord is upon you and you shall be blind</i><i>- </i>This foreshadowed how the rejected will be sent to a mist of darkness (2 Pet. 2:17). Thick darkness is associated with God's judgment (Is. 8:22; Joel 2:2; Zeph. 1:15)- and recall how the judgment of darkness upon Egypt was so severe that human movement required 'groping' (Ex. 10:21). Perhaps there will be a literal element to this in the experience of the rejected. Be that as it may, the utter&nbsp;<i>pointlessness&nbsp;</i>of life without God will be so bitterly apparent. And yet they would not face up to it in their day of opportunity.</p><p><i>Not seeing the sun for a time. </i><i>And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness, and he went about seeking someone to lead him by the hand</i>- It is possible that this was so that he had to be led by the hand (Acts 13:11); it is all so reminiscent of Paul&rsquo;s own experience in 9:8 that it would seem he was consciously seeking to replicate his own conversion in the life of another man. And this is, indeed, the very essence of preaching from a grateful heart. He saw the power that worked in Him as working in all of us (Eph. 3:7,20). Paul wishes that the Colossians would be &ldquo;filled with the knowledge of his will&rdquo; (Col. 1:9), just as at his conversion he had been chosen so &ldquo;that you should know his will&rdquo; (Acts 22:14). He wanted them to share the radical nature of conversion which he had gone through; the sense of life turned around; of new direction.</p>