Monday 30 July 2012

Matthew 6:5-15


(similar altar to what Paul would have seen)
 
"For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you."
{Acts 17:23} (NIV1984)

What a dreadful state to be in. Conscious that there are ‘higher beings’ then yourself, and yet conscious of the truth that you don’t know one of these ‘higher beings’. The fact that the Athenians worshipped these ‘higher beings’ (albeit with statues and idols) means that they realized they owed them honour and allegiance of some kind. Paul was distressed that they were worshipping many idols, these sham gods, and sought to teach them about the One True God, the only real God. This God made the world, every person in the world and wants everyone to seek His face through His Son. Only some of Paul’s audience responded in faith, the rest stayed in their dreadful state. 

Compare their state to our state as children of the One True God. We address Him as Father or as Daddy. Jesus taught us to pray; ‘Our Father in heaven’. We are known by God and we can know Him. The more that we know Him, the more we realize the depth of love that this One True God has for us. What a blessed state we are in that we can pray today to our heavenly Dad! 

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name…”

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