Acts 8:35–36:

“So Philip started speaking, and beginning with this scripture proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him. Now as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, ‘Look, there is water! What is to stop me from being baptized?’”

I’m still in the series titled The Value of Small Things, and we are continuing to see the power of small things, beginning here with just one scripture.

There is enough fire, enough light, enough power of God locked up in a word that this man’s life was changed forever. When God created the world, He spoke the word and said, “Let there be…” (Genesis 1). That looks like a small thing, but it was the powerful way the world was created.

And one of the things you begin to notice is that this is actually the truth: God made the world with His word (Hebrews 11:3). When you think of making things, you don’t think of words; you think of exertion, of bringing parts together to form something, not of “nothing.” That shows you that the Bible has a divine origin. Nobody is trying to deceive you here. This is God. No human being can come up with this, because what human beings come up with will look like us. That’s why a lot of the gods we create derive satisfaction from carnal things.

But Jesus came and said, “God is spirit” (John 4:24). That can only be divine revelation, to show that God is spirit.

“The LORD sent His word and healed them, and rescued them from the pits they were trapped in” (Psalm 107:20). Paul wrote that it pleased God “through the foolishness of what is preached to save those who believe” (1 Corinthians 1:21). He said the gospel “is the power of God for salvation” (Romans 1:16). And in many of Jesus’ parables, we see the seed: a small thing (Matthew 13).

“The weakness of God is stronger than men” (1 Corinthians 1:25). God does not need to flex His muscle. He says, “The word that goes out from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but will accomplish what I desire” (Isaiah 55:11). He said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. See the grandness of it, the superiority of it, the divinity of it: “Let there be,” and there was. “What is seen has not been made out of things that are visible” (Hebrews 11:3). That is God for you.

So in this passage we read: “Philip started speaking, and beginning with this scripture, proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him.” That short time was packed with enormous spiritual power to change that man’s life. The trajectory of his life was changed. The power is in the “small thing”: the small time they spent together, just a portion of Scripture.

But because it is about Jesus, it has endless possibilities. It is powerful; it is glorious; it has endless possibilities.

Jesus told the people, “The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life” (John 6:63). They are not ordinary words. Even though you hear them as syllables, these are divine things—the word of God.

It says Philip spoke to him about someone he had never known before, proclaiming the good news about Jesus to him. He started with that scripture and explained to him about Jesus, and he kept the focus on Jesus, not on himself. The focus was Jesus.

So, as I’m drawing our attention to the value of small things, one “small” thing we have here—if we can even call it small—is the word of God.

God bless you. See you later.