Today’s Reading: Acts 17
For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with the inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. – so you are ignorant of the very thing you worship–, and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.
Do you have an Unknown god? Maybe it’s this game 7 hockey game I’m watching? Is it my kids that I can chase from here, there, and everywhere? Maybe it can be work that can take hold of my thoughts and time. Or could my Unknown god be any of the selfish desires or distractions that can take me away from Him?
Paul reminds us, as I think of any circumstance I’m facing…
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. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
It’s time to put away the Unknown gods… the desires and distractions that can keep making me feel like any of my circumstances is under my control.