Our Job Is to Obey

Daily Reading: Acts 8

Scripture Focus: Go over and join this chariot. (Acts 8.29)

Devotional Thought: Recently, I have been able to help a couple of new ladies at church.  I add them to my prayer list with full confidence that the Lord will speak to them about their souls.  I have three ladies now who are making progress.  Two of them are saved.  One of them doesn’t really claim salvation yet but she is there every week and seems hungry for what the Lord has for her.  (When you have a lifetime of bad habits and sin, it may take longer to come to the Lord.)  God keeps giving me new people to add to the list, and I just love it when "my girls" call me with a Bible question.  Yes, they might interrupt something I am doing or a television show I am watching, but it is worth it to keep their interest in God’s Word primed.  That is how they learn about the Christian life!

Phillip was led by an angel to go to an Ethiopian eunuch.  (Praise God for obedient servants.)  Leaving a successful, miracle-filled ministry behind, Phillip was willing to move on from the spotlight of the mountain top onto the shadow-covered trail of anonymity.  Phillip didn’t know for sure what would happen when he went to the eunuch, but he was obedient.  And the eunuch was saved!  We never know in advance how people will react when we go to them.  Our job is to obey.

Obey the Spirit the next time he leads you to an unsaved soul.

Fran Ginn

Prayer: Lord, help me to overcome fear and shyness the next time you lay some soul upon my heart.  Give me boldness when the Spirit nudges me to "go over and join this chariot."  Amen.

Psalm of the Day: Psalm 69.1-5

1 Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.

2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.

3 I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

4 More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?

5 O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.