Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“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?’ ”
NL Daily Devotion for Wednesday, May 13, 2020
by Daniel D. Maurer, Clergy Stuff
Look! Here is water. What is to prevent me from being baptized?
That, perhaps, was the most impulsive, but also most exciting event in the Ethiopian’s life.
Eunuchs were, in the ancient world, often in positions of power and trust. Why? Well . . . hmm. Let me think about that for a bit.
I wonder if it had to do with their inability to fool around and conceive a child?
I’m being sarcastic, of course. Yes. It was precisely for this reason that they were so trusted. So one thing we can learn from this story is that the Ethiopian no doubt was highly excitable and impulsive, but his baptism was also a “prestige” score for Philip in the early church.
God, however, calls the people whom God will call, regardless of power, wealth, gifts or value a society might place upon them.
And thank God! Because God also chooses you and me!
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