Daily Devotions
Lead Me to Some Soul Today
Reading for April 21st: 2 Kings 4-5
Weekly reading for April 19-25: Acts 6-10
And the Spirit said to Philip, "Go over and join the chariot." So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
Acts 8:29-30
What a bizarre scene this must have been. A man from Ethiopia is on his way home from Jerusalem down a deserted road riding his chariot, when he looks up and sees a man running toward him. I wonder what the Ethiopian was thinking when a complete stranger comes up and asks him for no apparent reason, "Do you understand what you're reading?"
Of course, he understands why this happened later because he became a Christian because of the conversation he had with this stranger.
I wonder how many other thousands (even millions) of meetings like this have happened since then. How many people today had a "chance" meeting like this?
We've got to keep our eyes open. If someone is asking questions or searching for answers or having spiritual problems (and every problem in life has a spiritual root), we need to be engaging people in conversation, even if we don't know them. Who knows whether we've been brought to the office, or the classroom, or the supermarket, or the mall, or the DMV, or the airport for this purpose.
And if you notice someone reading the Bible, by all means, ask them what they're reading!
Lead me to some soul today!
