Acts 17:24-27
24 God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. 25 Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. 26 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;
As Paul spoke of the unknown God the Athenians worshipped, he pointed to where that one God lives - not in man made temples. He lives above where He made all things, and does not need the works or efforts of us to be worshipped since all life comes from His breath and being to will it to us. He sets up peoples and nations, and controls their empires. Why? So we seek Him, groping in the dark of our blinded understanding. He is near, but so far from our ability to grasp Him… unless He draws us near to Himself in Christ.
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