What can we learn from the life of Paul?

Why do you and Paul abide so long in your present sphere?

Were Paul and I to go into a higher place, we should find ourselves idle—the blessed work in which we have so long been labouring would be at an end. Remember—we both feel deeply the obligation to work, for did we not oppose God in our earth lives! I, as a warrior, shed the blood of my fellowmen, sending them into the spirit world before their time. 

By so doing, I opposed Him. 

And Paul though not a warrior was one who stood up violently against his Prince, and in opposing Jesus, he opposed God. Neither 

Paul, nor I are tired of the good work. 

Our great delight is to throw in the light upon our brethren of mankind who still stand in opposition to God. 

We wish to lift them up and bring them into the presence of Jesus, the Prince. 

Fighting at one time as a warrior with sword and spear against my fellow men—against God, I am now wielding the spiritual sword against darkness and sin.

—Hafed, Prince of Persia