Wednesday, September 25, 2019

I give life and breath to all things.

Acts 17:24-25 New International Version (NIV)

24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

In today's promise, we read the Scripture passage where the Apostle Paul is speaking to some Greek philosophers on a place called Mars Hill. In this place of pagan worship, they had many false gods that they erected statues and monuments to. 

Paul, being the relevant kind of guy that he was, stopped at a simple monument created for 'the unknown god'. It was there that Paul began to reveal some of the mysteries about who the 'unknown god' actually was. Paul went on to preach the good news to these philosophers and revealed that the unknown god was actually the only true God.  I love how Paul creatively shared how God does not need to be worshiped through statues and idols because He is the very One that gives life and breath to all things!

The truth is that our God is not unknown and nameless. If we want to know what He is like, all we have to do is look at His Son, Jesus Christ. In John 14:9, Jesus says that anyone who has seen Jesus has seen the Father. Hebrews 1:3 says that Jesus is the exact representation of the Father's being. 

The wonderful news about today's promise is that the God and Father of all creation (Ephesians 4:6) continues to be very involved in everything He created. He is not distant and unconcerned, for every heart beat and every breath comes from His goodness.

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