I love going through the story of the Early Church as told in the first readings from the Acts of the Apostles during the Easter season. Scripture can be so compelling and vivid, can’t it, like a movie enfolding right before our eyes. In our reading from Acts today, a court official to the Queen of the Ethiopians had gone to Jerusalem to worship God and now is returning home. This official felt called to go there to worship God, even though he had a difficult time understanding what this was all about. The Lord sends Philip to greet this court official, to teach him about the reading from the prophet Isaiah that he is trying to read, to teach him about the Lord of Life. Philip disappears from this scene just as quickly as he appeared. As Philip is sent to another land to spread the word of God to others. Yet, before his departure, Philip baptizes the court official in a body of water.
We hear about miraculous stories of faith in Sacred Scripture, of how the Lord touches the hearts of different people, bringing them to him through great odds and difficulties. We often take our faith for granted, not wanting to be inconvenienced or finding excuses why we don’t spend time with the Lord. We need to be inspired by today’s reading, of how this Gentile court official goes out of our way to discover more about the faith and to find out more about what he doesn’t understand about God.
May we ask the Lord to continue to lead us and guide us along our journey of faith. May God set our hearts on fire with a love of him. May we always be curious to learn more about our faith and to grow in the ways of faith.
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