On his second missionary journey Paul waits for his friends in Athens. He perceived that this center of learning was filled with idols. He connects the people’s desire to worship with the person of Jesus. Then he connects who Jesus is with their own philosophy. The Greeks saw the great mysteries that science and philosophy could not adequately answer as life, motion, and being. Paul connects them to the God of life, motion and being. Only a creator is capable of making life, sustaining life,(keeping it in motion) and being (giving it personality).

Let’s take just one of the qualities that is put before us by Paul. Life is the first on the list of three. There are tremendous implications if our lives are dependent on God; which I believe they are. It is not possible to contemplate a reality without God. Why do I say that? We live in a reality created and sustained by God. Any other reality with out a creator or a sustainer by necessity cannot exist. We, like the Athenians, pridefully play mind experiments that are disingenuous. We pretend we are accidentally assembled. We toy with ideas that are impossible and ultimately laughable.

Where does that leave us? We can contemplate a reality either connected to the creator God or unconnected to that creator God. When we connect to the author of life our understanding of His magnitude increases exponentially. When we begin to understand His magnificence our worship of Him follows. When we worship Him our satisfaction increases. When our satisfaction increases, our spiritual life is fully alive. Then “in Him we Live.”