Take a moment to read Acts 8:26-40 before reading the devotional below.
So much of the Christian life is wandering where the Spirit takes you. And that is exactly what Philip does as he travels south from Samaria to Gaza. Along the way, he encounters an Ethopian eunuch (a high-level servant of the queen). Philip explains Jesus’ fulfillment of the prophecy in Isaiah that the eunuch was reading. Throw in an impromptu water baptism and you’ve got a pretty speedy conversion.
What happens next might be so confusing that you actually don’t notice what you are reading. Philip vanishes. Like out of thin air. Gone. The eunuch never sees him again. And in one of the coolest events in all of the Bible, the Holy Spirit zaps Philip on over to a more northern town called Azotus. Philip just “finds himself” there (and not like in the psychological, search-for-self kind of way). Teleportation on some kind of Holy Spirit Express.
The Holy Spirit can take you where he wants you to be. For Philip, that meant a supernatural 30-mile trip. For me, in a much less dramatic fashion, the Holy Spirit has carried me to a city famous for sinning. Where is the Spirit carrying you? Are you tuned in enough to hear his leading? Don’t worry about how you are going to get there, just pay attention to the move of the Holy Spirit as you take each step of the journey.