For in Him we live and move and have our being

Instead of grading like I planned. Instead of planning out my lessons for tomorrow. Instead of watching mindless episodes of "Friends" or any other television show...tonight...I tried something new.

I have spent the past few hours or so reading and rereading Paul's words to the Athenians in Acts 17. Being an Alumnus from Harding, I'm sure I'm supposed to know a countless amount of information about this passage.  I'm probably supposed to know the background of the culture, which missionary journey he was on at the time, where he was going next, what the "meeting of the Areopagus" exactly is, and how the sermon he preached is supposed to show me how to teach other people about God. I probably took several tests over it.

But tonight, I am meditating on God's revelation of who he is and how he has revealed Jesus to us.

"Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.  For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an alter with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.  Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you. For the God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands  And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.  From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth, and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would see him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'  Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or sliver or stone - an image made by man's design and skill.  In the past God has overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.  For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed.  He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead."

This week, I have decided to revel in this idea that "for in him we live and move and have our being".

Only, I don't want to just know it.

I want it to seep into my being and consume me.