unknown God…

Then Paul stood in front of the  and said, ‘Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, “To an unknown god.” What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. For “In him we live and move and have our being”; as even some of your own poets have said, “For we too are his offspring.” Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.’ When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some scoffed; but others said, ‘We will hear you again about this.’ At that point Paul left them. But some of them joined him and became believers, including Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris, and others with them. (Acts 17:22-34, NRSV)

To an unknown god…

How many of us have ever said who is god?

Or where is god?

We get hung up on the things we can see and touch and sense that we get lost on the things that just are and we have to take on faith!

Paul told the Athenians that their unknown god was very known to Paul and could be to them to. He explained who Jesus was, and when Paul got to the part where God raised Jesus from the dead, they lost it. They couldn’t take it because it was not logical and it did not make sense because they had never seen that.

We get so hung up on the possibility of something we can not see.

I have never seen the wind, but I know it exists. Yes I can see the effects of the wind, and I can feel the wind. But I have never actually seen the wind.

I can feel the effects of God and see the effect He has in peoples lives. And I have never seen anyone rise from the dead. But I take it on faith that I will rise, just like He did, because God said it would happen.

We can not get hung up on the logic of understanding who God is, but we also can not take blind acceptance of what we are fed either.

God gave us all minds to use and to question our faith and Him. He is big enough to take your questions.

So wonder where He is…

Wonder how He interacts with your life…

Then think about it and talk it over with a friend over coffee or tea or a beer…

Let Him know you wonder, because He is always wondering about you and looking for you to live the life He has in store for you.

So question the unknown god, but know that He is always there ready to be known by you!