Poem September 5, 1983 Issue

Arise and go—higher

Acts, chapter 8

GORDON R. CLARKE

There was plenty to do in Jerusalem.
Important work. Teaching work. Healing work.
No logical reason to leave and go elsewhere.

Yet Philip heard the voice, the angel voice,
bidding him go out on the road to Gaza.
(Gaza? A desert place?)
But "he arose and went"—not knowing why,
only that he was to go.

He soon found out the why.

For there his path came near the Ethiopian,
a thinker hungry to understand spiritual things.
Before long Philip was explaining, sharing—
and soon after, a bright-eyed Ethiopian
took his newborn vision home to a faraway place.

One wonders—how many others must have been touched?

When God says "Go!"—
into new realization,
into higher spiritual vision—
Go!

Never mind you've not been there before.
Never mind you think you like where you are better.
He'll provide all necessary means and method and map.
And where you get to will always surpass
where you've been before.

GORDON R. CLARKE

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