We all know the Matthew 28 passage (make disciples) and the Matthew 22 passage (love the Lord with all your heart....and your neighbor as yourself) and so when I am in my right frame of mind I pray for opportunities to love people, to tell them about Jesus. Well many times I find my self frustrated at not getting the results that I wanted, whether its a conversation that never went to spiritual things or that the person just ignored or failed to respond to my fancy Gospel speech. This morning God hit me with this passage

Acts 8:26-40
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
26 But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, “Get up and go south to the road that descends from Jerusalem to Gaza.” ([a]This is a desert road.) 27 So he got up and went;........

Now if you read the rest of this story Philip then meets a Ethiopian eunuch, helps him read the truth, then starts preaching Jesus to him, it seems then that the man believes and wants to be baptized so Philip baptizes him. If you are like me I long for the experience like Philip with the eunuch, to meet someone, share the Gospel with them see them repent and then be baptized, if that happens that is a really good day (or maybe even a good year). But look at the first verse and a half of this passage, the angel of the Lord said get up and go south, verse 27 SO HE GOT UP AND WENT.

Philip didn't say "why" and then God said cause you are gonna get to lead someone to Christ, God said go and Philip got up and went. It made me wonder about the opportunities to obey and to be pleasing to the Master I miss because I ask why or I am so focused on having the results that I want.

I talk/demand obedience to my kids, yet how many times do I fail to give God glory by simply not obeying. Phillip got to be a part of an amazing experience, seeing a life transformed (not to mention he got to experience teleportation in verse 39), and it started by simply getting his butt off the couch and obeying.

.....So he got up and went

I Peter 4:11
11 Whoever speaks, is to do so [h]as one who is speaking theutterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving [i]by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen