August 3, 2010 – Acts 17:16 - 18:23

So, yesterday we read about God making nature and the world so as to make us realize who God is.  Here we hear Paul using the same argument to the Pagans of Athens.  I loved how it describes them.  People who sat around all day and did nothing but talk about new ideas.  It sounds like a whole city that is a university.  And here they have someone with new ideas.  Talking about God coming down as a man, rising from the dead, and that this is the God that made everything.  And the message I think that really inspired people is the closeness to God they can have.  He is here, everywhere, and He wants us to go after Him.  He made the world so that we would long to grasp for Him.  Not just find Him and watch Him from a distance, but grab a hold and allow Him to lead us.  And they seem very interested in such a “new” idea.