Wednesday | May 8, 2024
Acts 17:23
What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you.
The 6th Week of Easter
What We Worship
Fate, The Universe, Karma, Kismet and the like often get more attention than God—except when he’s being profaned. Aside from Church, what positives do we hear about God? He’s often shut out of lives, reduced to some magic genie who’s only relevant when he grants wishes.
Yet, consciously or unconsciously, we search for meaning in life: why we’re here, where we’re going, what we do with suffering? Whether we think ourselves the captains of our own ships or acknowledge the one who gave us life, we all focus attention somewhere.
Today, we hear Saint Paul daring to tell the Athenians of a God bigger than it all. Let’s not be silenced by our seemingly-filled-but-empty culture. This world still needs the One who made us all.
Please, Lord, help us to see and to share that you, who give us life and breath and everything, are not far from any of us.
- Kathleen Swartz McQuaig
Acts 17:15, 22—18:1 • Psalm 148:1-2, 11-14 • John 16:12-15
