May 20, 2009

Today's Reading: Acts 17:15, 22-18:1

What you therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything...so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us.

A beautiful exhortation from Paul to the people of Athens. A beautiful reminder for us too who tried to seek God (to the extent of "groping" for him) that the God whom we intend and grope for is not too far from us. If we try to just feel his nearness to us, we can actually feel his breathing against our face. That's how close God is from us. Sometimes, we just tend to look him in other places, or we are busy "serving" him, doing things for him that we sometimes, if not most of the time, we fail to notice him, and recognize him, whom we are serving. And yet, there are times, when what he only wants from us is to spend some quiet time with him. Because only in that quiet time that we can feel that he's there, he's beside us, and know that he has already given everything to us.

Let this be a reminder that the God we seek is not far from us, just feel and you will know that he is there.