Independent

No I didn't take this rough morning I am having and get brain fade. I didn't think it was Independence day weekend instead of Memorial Day weekend, I just wanted to continue our study of that same passage in Acts 17. There is so much in just this little group of verses that tells us a lot about God.
Today I want to focus on His lack of dependence. Think about the most powerful, most reliable person you know. In our youth group we talked about this and realized that there are people in the world that we almost idolize. But there is no way we would want God to be anything like them. We don't fully understand God, we can't fully comprehend how He made everything and nothing made Him. How, He has always been and made man from dust, the earth and the heavens from dust and where did the dust come from? Who knows, I don't and I am okay with that. That is what makes God, God. I don't want to serve a God who needs some type of help, food, sleep, manmade things or even air. I want to serve a God who is all knowing, all powerful and everywhere all at one time. A God who knows everyone's thoughts, and everyone's future. A God who knew we couldn't live up to His expectations so He planned to send His Son as a Savior. That is who I serve, live for and share with anyone who will listen. That is what excites me about sharing the Gospel. Here are the verses again.
Acts 17:22-27 says, Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopaggus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are avery religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now that you worship as something unknown I am gong to proclaim to you. 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 thye should inhabit the whole earth; and he deteremined the times set for them and exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek 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.'"
There, Paul shares with us that God is not served by human hands, does not live in a temple made by man, does not ned anything. Instead He provides for our needs. He knit us together in our mother's womb, He planned out all of our days and plans His provision over us daily. That is why I can proudly say that Our God is an Awesome God!
Thanks for reading and have a great Memorial Day weekend!