If you had a successful ministry
where many people were believing in Jesus and being baptized, would you be
willing to pick up and leave, heading toward an uninhabited desert? Philip was willing.
He had received divine direction, so
he arose and went. Surprisingly, he met
someone on the road, riding in an ox drawn chariot. This someone was a eunuch, a high ranking
official for a queen. Though he had been
to Jerusalem to worship, as a eunuch, he would have been forbidden entry into
the temple. Even so, he seems to have
been a God-fearing man.
Normally, an ordinary person would
not approach a person of high rank—that would be outside the bounds of social
mores. Had it not been for his assurance
that the Spirit of God was giving directions, it is very unlikely someone like
Philip would have approached someone like the Ethiopian eunuch.
Happily, the eunuch seemed to be
prepared in heart and mind for this very meeting. It was the right place at the right time for
a greater revelation of the truth of Jesus.
The working of the Holy Spirit is
always remarkable when we recognize it.
This passage inspires me to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit’s leading of
my days. I may not audibly hear an angel
give specific instructions, but I can always respond to the still small voice of
God if I will simply quiet my own mind and plans to listen.
How about you? Are you listening and looking for God to work
in and through you in remarkable ways?
That is His nature.
Like
Philip, keeping the love of God as our priority, let’s be diligent in the work
that is before us, faithful and adaptable in changing circumstances, and
sensitive to the leading of His Spirit.
Read
and Pray: Isaiah 56:1-8, Psalm
23, Luke 4:1, Galatians 5:16
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