1063. Seeking for Light

Seeking for Light

"Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God" (Psa_68:31).

Our key verse seems almost prophetic of this very man, the Ethiopian treasurer, although the passage must be more general in its complete fulfillment. The larger fulfillment lies yet ahead and awaits the coming of our Lord.

Still the eunuch of this story is, as it were the first-fruits, of the larger harvest that will follow, when the King comes back. Let us then, with renewed interest, follow the seekings of this sinner, who was a great man under Queen Candace.

1. He had found not help in Ethiopia. He had looked this way and that, and there was no man. No one cared for his soul. No one had a message of peace. The gods of his heathen darkness gave no hope of light and life and love.

2. He had gone to Jerusalem for to worship. Whether he sought the Church instead of the Jewish synagogue we do no know. In those days the Christians were greatly spoken against in Jerusalem. The fires of persecution had already broken forth.

The story of the Ethiopian is sandwiched in between the story of Stephen's death and the story of the treacherous threatenings of the young man Saul. The Jerusalem Church was being scattered in all directions. Perhaps the Ethiopian could not find opportunity to meet one of the disciples of the Cross. At least, he was in Jerusalem seeking for light, and he found it not.

3. One thing he had, and that was a copy of the Scroll of Isaiah. With this in hand, and with heavy heart he was returning.

What a picture! A sinner seeking for the light; a sinner in the house of God; a sinner yearning after God, but returning in the dark. A sinner with the "Bread of Heaven" in his hand, yet hungry as he went.

When the Spirit of God convicts men of sin,

There is sorrow and sighing and sadness within;

There is searching and seeking 'mid darkness and night,

For peace and for pardon, for Christ the true light.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR