Day 38 – April 1, 2010
Running for God
Acts 8: 26-40
Do you obey the Spirit today? Will you do what God tells you to do? He may have a running job for you.
In fact, all work of the kingdom is so important that we should be runners. The only place for a sitter in
the kingdom is to take time to meditate, to hear the commands and instructions of God – and then run to
execute them. Let us be runners.
We read that Phillip was running. Why? He was the leader of a great spiritual awakening in Samaria. In
fact, this layman, under the leadership of the Holy Spirit, was having such a great revival in Samaria that
news reached First Church, Jerusalem. So it was decided to send Peter and John to see about this
movement among the underprivileged Samaritans across the tracks. Thank God, First Church, Jerusalem,
sent their best leaders to help.
In the midst of this wonderful spiritual outpouring “the angel of the Lord spake unto Phillip, saying,
Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen
of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, was
returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. Then the Spirit said unto Phillip, ‘Go near,
and join thyself to this chariot.’ And Phillip ran thither to him.” Phillip ran.
He ran because the errand was urgent. The opportunity to bear the gospel witness to the Ethiopian would
not come again, and God had no one else to run this errand. He ran because he was under orders of the
Holy Spirit. There was no higher authority for him to submit to than that.
Prayer
Help us, our Father, to look upon our opportunities to share the good news of Christ as divine calls to
enlarge the kingdom of God. Give us rejoicing hearts as we proclaim thy love and goodness wherever we
can bear testimony to Christ, our Lord. Amen
Harry Denman
(Prophetic Evangelist: The Living Legacy of Harry Denman, 1993)
