Are You Text-ing?

One of the challenges for me living in the world today  is texting with my phone.  It is challenging for me to text a message to our children (who seem quite comfortable with this form of communication).  My fingers seem too slow and too big to easily communicate in such a manner.   In recent days, I have been trying to use this feature on my smart phone that lets me talk my message till it is converted into  a text.   I suspect my phone must not be from the south as it seems to have a difficult time always understanding what I believe I am saying quite clearly. 

Perhaps texting is challenging for you also or maybe it seems as natural as walking.  Whether you are a consummate text-er or a text-er “wanna be” , I commend to you another kind of text:  the biblical text.   In Acts 8,  we hear of a Ethiopian Eunuch who is struggling not with texting a friend, but with the biblical text.  Read the story below:

²⁶ Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” ²⁷ So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian^[a]eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, ²⁸ and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet. ²⁹ The Spirit toldPhilip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”  ³⁰ Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.   ³¹ “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

It is important that I struggle with texting with my children and others as I value having a relationship with them.  Well, it is also important that you and I  struggle with finding the time and understanding of the biblical text, the Bible, if we value our relationship with God and service to God.  Have a joy-filled week.-  Randy Wall

Prayer:    O God,  I give you thanks for the Bible that are a light to our feet and a guide to our path. Through the power of your Holy Spirit, help us open the Bible as you open its meaning to us;  through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.