breathing life...

I want to link to an old chum's post. For some reason, it reminded me and forced me to look up the following passage in Acts 17...

"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 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.'

"Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone - —an image made by man's design and skill. In the past God 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."

Are we breathing the breath that he gave us to breathe to worship him, or is it polluted with all of the idols that pervade our world today? We have all been searchers, and will continue to be, but those of us who have received the gift of Life have a great responsibility. Thanks, Lisa, for a creative reminder, as always.

"Don't ever wonder what you can offer when inside you carry Life..."