August
30 2018
Act
17:28
for "'In him we live and move and have our being
What
a sweeping assertion is this! These words, be it noted, were
addressed, not to one of the churches of God, not to a company of
saints who had reached an exalted plane of spirituality, but to a
heathen audience, to those who worshiped "the unknown God"
and who "mocked" when they heard of the resurrection of the
dead. And yet, to the Athenian philosophers, to the Epicureans and
Stoics, the Apostle Paul did not hesitate to affirm that they lived
and moved and had their being in God, which signified not only that
they owed their existence and preservation to the One who made the
world and all things therein, but also that their very actions were
encompassed and therefore controlled by the Lord of Heaven and earth.
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