This week I finished a paper on Acts 8:26-40--the story of Philip encountering the Ethiopian eunuch on the road to Gaza, and after having the scriptures interpreted to him beginning with Jesus, the eunuch is converted. This is the first of three personal conversion stories in a row in Acts which follow on from the mass conversions in the first six chapters of the book and is Luke lifting the lid on the individual's response to the hearing of the Gospel.
For me, the stand-out teaching of this passage is the way Luke cleverly shows that Christ includes the eunuch as a full member of his kingdom, which is in complete contrast to the treatment that he had received from Judaism. In Christ the eunuch was able to be a human in all fullness, and thus his rejoicing (v39), was a response both to the eternal promises which were to come to him in the future, as well as knowing that he could live in the present as a person fully acceptable to God.
This is a promise which we can all share in today. Christ accepts us, warts and all, no matter what our gender, our race, our ethnicity.
May God bless you this morning.