Acts 17:22-29 (NLT, 2ND Ed.)
22 So Paul, standing before the council, addressed them as follows: “Men of Athens, I notice that you are very religious in every way,
23 for as I was walking along I saw your many shrines. And one of your altars had this inscription on it: ‘To an Unknown God.’ This God, whom you worship without knowing, is the one I’m telling you about.
24 “He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since He is Lord of Heaven and Earth, He doesn’t live in man-made temples,
25 and human hands can’t serve His needs — for He has no needs. He Himself gives life and breath to everything, and He satisfies every need.
26 From one man He created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and He determined their boundaries.
27 “His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward Him and find Him — though He is not far from any one of us.
28 For in Him we live and move and exist. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
29 And since this is true, we shouldn’t think of God as an idol designed by craftsmen from gold or silver or stone.
GREAT words there, and I especially adore the 27TH verse above. It’s all about seeking Him, finding Him, and following Him. He is never unreachable.
In this world you may encounter those who just seem to be as far away as possible from God. That’s the devil at work, but God is so ultimate – so powerful – that He can reach them and pull them away from the throes of evil and darkness. Don’t ever think that you are better than any one of them. Don’t ever think that the light of the day is so far removed from any one of them. Don’t ever think of them as ‘them’, for they are us. We are God’s children. We are brothers and sisters and He is Our Father.
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