THE SIMPLEST OF INSTRUCTIONS

Today's reading: Acts 7-8

"The Holy Spirit said to Philip, Go over and walk along beside the carriage." Acts 8:29 NLT

The simplest of instructions.

Philip could have rejected Spirit's leading.

Philip could have come up with a laundry list of excuses as to why he shouldn't.

Philip could have suggested many other more capable men to do what God was asking.

Philip could have put it off until a later time.

Philip could have started planning what he would say, the verses he would quote, the conversation starter he might need to use.

But Philip took the first step in the simplest of instructions.

'Go over and walk along beside the carriage.'

So he went over and walked along beside the carriage.

And he heard the man reading from the book of Isaiah.

Philip's obedience in the smallest of things offered him an open door to a conversation with a man that would eventually lead to his baptism--and this man leaving Philip's company rejoicing. Rejoicing in the fact that the Lord placed someone in his midst that could help him to know Him better.

What's the simplest instruction God is giving you today?