Scripture Reading…Acts 17:16-34
Devotion
I (Steve) am writing this while I am waiting to board an airplane to Dallas, Texas. I am performing a wedding just west of there on Saturday. I am about to get on a large aluminum tube, travel at over 500 mph, and trust my life to a pilot I cannot see and have never met. When you put it that way, it seems a bit crazy, and yet we board these planes by the millions every day. We put our trust in a pilot who speaks to us for about twenty seconds and then goes about his business.
Our God is a revealing God. He isn’t flying this whole world, hidden from us. He didn’t spend twenty seconds creating the world and then went off about his business. And while we ARE told to seek him, it is important to remember that the seeking that is talked about here in Acts 17 is not the hide and seek kind of seeking. This is not close your eyes count to ten and then go find Jesus. By no means! Instead, He has perfectly revealed himself to us in what he has been written. Faith, Paul would say, comes by hearing the word of God. God is calling us to examine the evidence, to do the hard work that leads to faith. When we do, what we find is exactly what Acts 17 says…“he is not far from each of us.” He is near and he is available. He has been pursing us all along. As Psalm 139 reminds us, there is nowhere we can go where God isn’t already seeking us.
Connect with the word of God and you will connect with the God of the word!!!
CHALLENGE FOR THE DAY
Walk at least one mile today.
Respond to the online community.
We are going to return to a time of FASTING today. We did this earlier, let’s try again…
First, I want you to skip a meal (if you are medically able to do so). Replace that meal with a time of prayer, replace that meal with a time of meditation, a time where you draw near to God. Whatever time you would normally take to eat, dedicate it back to God. Let him be your food for at least one meal today.