The God Who Made The World
Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus
and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects
of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an
unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as an unknown, this I proclaim
to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of
heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, nor is he served
by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all
mortals life and breath and all things. From one ancestor he made all nations
to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and
the boundaries of the places where they would live, so that they would search
for God and perhaps grope for him and find him – though indeed he is not far
from each one of us. For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even
some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’ Since we are
God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver,
or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. While God has
overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere
to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in
righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given
assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
Acts 17:22-31
Jesus Christ is the Inescapable One. We must either receive Him
in this life as our loving Savior or stand before Him in the life to come as
our eternal Judge.
How do you treat Jesus Christ? He was the son of a carpenter,
but He was also the Son of God. He will sit in judgment of you and I. What will your sentence be? Life or
Death. Trust Jesus to give you the blessing of salvation, or you will
give yourself the sentence of condemnation.
Everyone must choose – Christ or
condemnation.
Our Daily Bread –