PENnED

November 18, 2011

Read: Acts 17:19-31

“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. ²⁸ ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.”

What did God do so that people might seek him? God created everything and “he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.” But how do people respond? They create “gods” according to their own image and worship them.

Today’s graven images are not only the ones carved out of wood or stone but also those ideas of God that do not resemble the God the Bible reveals. Why do people become unnecessarily creative in their conceptualization of God? Perhaps because they do it apart from a vital relationship with Christ by whom the world will be judged.

To know God is to know Christ.