Brooke's Top 10 Bible Stories - #8

#8: The Ethiopian in the Desert 

I think that this Bible story is amazing. Phillip was in Macedonia, and lots of people were turning to the Lord. Then God tells him to ride out into the middle of the desert. Phillip must have been wondering why.

When he got out there, he just happened to run into an Ethiopian who was reading the Old Testament. He didn't understand what he was reading, but Phillip was able to explain it to him. He got saved, was baptized, and then went back home, where he probably told people there about Jesus. It's likely that many of the Ethiopian Christians today were influenced by this one meeting.

This story reminds me a little bit of The Heavenly Man. In China, miracles like this are still happening. In The Heavenly Man, Brother Yun prays for a Bible... and one arrives, in a day when Bibles were illegal to own. These stories demonstrate that sometimes things just don't make sense, but then "coincidences" happen. After all, what are the chances of running into somebody, in the middle of the desert, and they just happen to be reading the Bible? It's never happened to me.

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