Acts 17:24 “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.
Since Paul is spreading the Good News of Christ in these chapters, there is so much truth we can hold on to here. God is not relegated to church buildings and He is not served by human hands because He is helpless. He is the Creator. We are the creation. He gives us “life and breath and everything else.”
Acts 17:25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
And why does the God of all Creation do this? So that we would seek Him, reach out for Him, and find Him because “he is not far from any one of us.” Simple yet profound and fundamentally life changing.
Acts 17:27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.
Lord, Thank You. Who You are and what You do and have done for us is mind-blowing. And yet, You want us to seek You, to reach out for You. You want relationship with Your people. Help me, daily, seek to strengthen my relationship with You. Draw me closer. Amen.
Acts 17:28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
Have a blessed day.