I don't know if you have ever had the opportunity to be in someone's presence when they first discover God's love for them, but it is profound. There is something about the joy of this truth capturing them that completely changes them.
Sometimes this comes as a first-time conversion experience. Sometimes, like John Wesley, it comes well after you believe in Jesus, but it sinks into your heart. Other times people are struck by the magnitude of this truth again and again and again, finding new levels of joy with each time.
The Ethiopian eunuch has such an experience. At first, he is wrestling with scripture, but then Philip is sent by God to help him understand, not just the text from Isaiah, but how it fits into the larger story of salvation in Jesus Christ. And the eunuch gets it. He gets that this means that he is welcomed to be part of the Kingdom of God. And the first bit of water he sees he asks to be baptized.
We don't really know what happens to the eunuch after that, but we do know that his life was changed. We don't always know what happens to the people we get to share the joy of Jesus's love with, but we still go. We still respond with obedience. And we let God bring the blessing.
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