“How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to
me?”
So he invited
Philip to come up and sit with him.”
Acts 8:31
The same Holy Spirit who was working in the heart of
the Ethiopian eunuch quoted above could have easily also brought him divine
revelation to understand what he was reading.
But God chose to use Philip to share with him the Good
News of the Gospel.
It is also noteworthy that Phillip was invited to sit
with him.
Often, in our zeal to fulfill the Great Commission, we
fail to wait for the invitation.
We have good news to share and that is what we are
going to do – whether or not they are ready to hear!
But if we are led by the Holy Spirit, He can and will
faithfully lead us to those He is drawing to Christ.
The eunuch was not ignorant of scripture but he was
hungry for questions he had to be answered.
Jesus said the fields are “...white unto harvest.”
This encounter was a fulfillment of those words.
Like the woman at the well that Jesus spoke to in John
3, when we are led by the Spirit there is no such thing as a ‘chance encounter’.
Philip was led by the Holy Spirit to someone hungry
and ready.
Will you let the Holy Spirit lead you today to that
person who is hungry and ready?
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