May you be blessed on this special day, a day that sparks reassurance for believers, saved by grace through faith! It is Resurrection Day, or as some of you refer to it,” Easter.” Hopefully, if you use the latter term, it has a holy significance and it does not just point to a holiday significance. Hopefully, your focus is on the devoted Lamb of God and not just the delicious ham and side dishes you will eat after church.
Last year, I had thought about making this special Sunday meditation short, but hey, today is not Monday. So, instead of just saying three words to make a point in a few words, “He has risen,” let me share the verses that are referred to as “Theology in a Nutshell,” found in The Book of Acts. For some, what you are about to read it is a review or a revisiting of scriptures you are familiar with from your prior study of the word of God. For others, it is a reminder of truths they had been taught but have they have buried these truths in a forgotten corridor of their minds. Still for others, this might be a real revelation or finally a realization. Read each word, every single word contained in the verses below before heading off early to attend church and rest in what you have called “my pew.” Read it all and be blessed, no matter if for you it is a review, a revisiting, a reminder, or a real revelation. Again, as always, I say, “Be blessed!”
“So, Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects. For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything that is in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made by hands; nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might feel around for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His descendants.’ Therefore, since we are the descendants of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought. So having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now proclaiming to mankind that all people everywhere are to repent, because He has set a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all people by raising Him from the dead.” (Acts 17:22-31 NASB)
Committed to the climb,
Mark L. King