Wed the 17th

Acts 8:36

 ³⁶As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, "Look, here is water. Why shouldn't I be baptized?"

 

Why shouldn’t He be baptized…..right now?  Why shouldn’t we seize the moment and live for God…..right now, Why shouldn’t you take that chance that God has placed in your life and step out in faith……right now. What I love about this scripture is the sense of urgency that the eunuch had. It was not well let’s wait until we get to town, or maybe this weekend I can schedule some time. The only thought eunuch had was why not right now? God works in our lives constantly, sometimes we can see it, other times we cannot. Make no mistake about it though, when the Lord comes  into our lives and presents opportunities, it is right now. He does not say hey next year, or next month I need you to. He shows up and says NOW. Go, leave your people and follow the path I have laid, or go to this town, and preach the word, maybe it is go help a friend in need….The Lord might give you an idea of what is to come, but it is always followed with but right now, I need you to……..Often though we find ourselves more like Jonah, instead of Moses. We have other ideas, we have other plans, we think there are other things we need to do THEN we will get to what God is pointing us at. We need to approach life the way the eunuch approached baptism, why not right now? We need to quit looking at all of the reasons we are telling ourselves later, and start saying NOW! I am just as guilty as anyone about this, it is all to easy to set some of the things the Lord is pulling us to off to the side, while we take care of “more pressing issues”. We wonder why we feel like we are spinning our wheels, we can’t figure out why we keep running the race only to find that we are running in a circle, we shake our fists and shout why?! If we stop and think about it, we might be surprised to find that our problem is that we are working on the worlds issues, not the Lord’s. Why not right now? Everyday we work for a paycheck, but are we spending time working on our soul? Everyday we look at our plans for our life, but are we stopping to see if those plans line up with God’s? Everyday we work to advance our agenda, but what about the Lord’s? What about right now? Is the Lord pulling you towards something? Have you taken the time to look? Maybe you know exactly what it is, but you have other things going on……Why not right now?

 

 

God Bless,

Brian Thetford

The New Covenant Church

www.thenewcovenantchurch.com

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