I LOVE this passage! The whole way through it,start to finish it is just AWESOME! There are so many things that are fabulous about this scripture and my favorite is at the end when the dude is like well why shouldn't I be baptized?! Then they get out and dunk him but when he comes up Philip disappears! Say what?! How awesome would that be to be in one place and the next minute you're in a completely different place!
This morning as I was reading this scripture something a little different jumped out at me. Like I said I love the whole passage and there have been times where my focus was on the miracle at the end and times where my focus was on the preaching in the middle, but I've never really kept the thought on the beginning more than just to recognize that Philip went as soon as God told him to. But today verse 27 was the first thing that caught my attention: so he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, AN IMPORTANT OFFICIAL IN CHARGE OF ALL THE TREASURY OF CANDACE, QUEEN OF THE ETHIOPIANS.
If you know me it's things like this that I adore and that give me hope. My husband and I were just talking last night how I have always wanted to make history. When I was younger it was out of selfish reasons, but now I don't even care if my name is remembered I just want something I am a part of to make history. Example, our church's mission trip this year is with missions.me 1Nation 1 Day. The trip itself is already making history, it's the biggest mission trip ever taking over 2,000 missionaries. Recently we found out that after this trip the Honduras will actually change it's name to New Honduras! How awesome is that?! (FYI if you want to be a part of that I think there may be a fee spots open go to missions.me and look up One Nation OneDay) Anyway, back to business what stood out to me this morning was that when you obey God he gives you favor. Not only that but favor with ALL kinds of people! This guy was a very important person, it even says so right there in the verse. And God gave Philip favor with him so now his life is different and he can go back home where he has influence with the QUEEN and share what has happened! Most people won't understand it, but you know what?! FAVOR AIN'T FAIR!
Moral of story: believe and be confident in the favor that you have been given! Change your world, one step of obedience at a time!
Have a great day!
~Awaken Us~
Brenna Stanford
