“HE HIMSELF GIVES!”

 Acts 17:24-29                       (ESV)

“[24] The GOD who made the world and everything in it, being LORD of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, [25] nor is HE served by human hands, as though HE needed anything, SINCE HE HIMSELF GIVES TO ALL MANKIND LIFE AND BREATH AND EVERYTHING. [26] And HE made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, [27] that they should seek GOD, and perhaps feel their way toward HIM and find HIM. Yet HE is actually not far from each one of us, [28] for 

    “‘In HIM we live and move and have our being’;

    as even some of your own poets have said, 

    “‘For we are indeed HIS offspring.’

    [29] Being then GOD’s offspring, we ought NOT to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.”