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Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God.
Paul wrote most of the New Testament. Jesus revealed himself to Paul on the road to Damascus giving him the qualification the other apostles had, witnessing the risen Christ. I think the disciples, or should I say the other apostles, were somewhat hurried to replace Judas Iscariot. They chose Matthias for that position.
Maybe there was some confusion on how they would do this “spreading the gospel” mission and going out two by two had some precedence but could it be they should have waited for Paul? It was a long wait for sure. This isn’t being critical of Peter and the rest of them. I’m sure it was prayed about and certainly they weighed the desires of Jesus.
Jesus seemed to have just walked along and told the apostles to follow him. He didn’t wait, no procrastination, he just invited them to follow. He taught fishermen how to be fishers of men.
Paul was different. He loved God. He knew everything, a Pharisee of the Pharisee. He knew the Word of God. He wasn’t going to allow anyone to screw up his nation’s faith in the words of Moses. But he was not a servant of the Messiah. He knew about God, about the scriptures, but Paul didn’t know Christ.
Paul became a servant of Christ and was called for a special purpose. The only reason for him to be alive was the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The oracles of God were given us by the prophets of Israel. Now an Israelite was given the task of giving the gospel to the Gentiles. The Jews rejected the gospel but a Jew would be the one to deliver the bulk of new covenant scripture to the non-Jewish world.
I thank God for the Word of God, both old and new. Lord give us the same burden to deliver the salvation message to the lost. We, like Paul, are just servants doing what the master wants and that is letting others know why he came here.