Daily Lectionary for August 19, 2010
Psalm 119:1-24
Job:1:1-22
Acts 8:26-40
John 6:16-27
Psalm 119:1-24
"Your decrees are my delight, they are my counselours." (v.24) The idea of God's decrees as my counselours is illuminating. God's decrees are perhaps not iron clad statements that can be placed with precision into any context and work perfectly. God's decrees, the totality of what God has made known to us in Scripture is a counselour. It speaks to our situation, not so much in an absolute "God says do this" kind of way, but in a way that guides, directs and invites us to interaction as we seek God's will for the particular moments of our lives.
Acts 8:26-40
This is a magical story. Phillip runs into a Ethiopian court official on a road in the wilderness. The Ethiopian had been to Jerusalem to worship. Now on his way home he is reading scripture. Phillip has been led here and joins him. He interprets scripture for him. The man spots water and asks, "What is to prevent me from being baptized." God put the Ethiopian and Phillip on the wilderness road at just the right time that they'd come to water at just the right moment. So many moving parts in this story that have to work out just right for all the parts to come together as God planned. In v. 40 it says that after all this Phillip "found hinmself in Azotus". What Phillip seemed to understand is that whereever he "found" himself, God intended for him to be there. Where are we "finding" ourselves this day. Why has God put us here?
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