Then an angel of the Lord said to
Philip, ‘Get up and go towards the south to the road that goes down from
Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now
there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the
Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to
worship and was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the
prophet Isaiah. Then the Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go over to this chariot and
join it.’ So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah.
He asked, ‘Do you understand what you are reading?’ He replied, ‘How can I,
unless someone guides me?’ And he invited Philip to get in and sit beside
him. Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this:
‘Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, and like a lamb silent
before its shearer, so he does not open his mouth. In his humiliation
justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is
taken away from the earth.’ The eunuch asked Philip, ‘About
whom, may I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about
someone else?’ Then Philip began to speak, and starting with this scripture,
he proclaimed to him the good news about Jesus. As they were going along the
road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, ‘Look, here is water!
What is to prevent me from being baptized?’ He commanded the chariot to
stop, and both of them, Philip and the eunuch, went down into the water, and
Philip baptized him. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the
Lord snatched Philip away; the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way
rejoicing. But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he was passing through
the region, he proclaimed the good news to all the towns until he came to
Caesarea.
God's
love and attention for us is without end, without bound, without limits.
Why should our personal worship encompass only 1 hour on Sunday?
God invites us to a 24/7 relationship. Here's your opportunity to
continue to explore the way God's word connects with this week's worship
theme. We invite you to spend some time each day discovering God's
word...
mat 4:18-20 - Jesus Calls the First Disciples
As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two
brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a
net into the lake—for they were fishermen.
And he said to them, ‘Follow me, and I will make you
fish for people.’
Immediately they left their nets and followed him.
