"for in Him we live and move and have our being..."1
One of my favorite areas of scripture in the Bible. And easily relative to encountering life in an apartment and life in general, because there aren't any boundaries to this reality. The apostle Paul's reaction after walking into the city of Athens and seeing that the it had been "given over to idols,"2 which included an alter with an inscription of: to the unknown god (capitilized). Pauls Spirit-filled response to seeing these things gives me a glimpse of truth even beyond his context of proclaiming the fact that there is a God that can be known, rather than unknown. It's not commonplace to live in awareness that we are basically wrapped up in God.
This blog is just a place for Michelle and I to record some happenings, if that's how it turns out... and our transitioning into living together, being married, being in an apartment, daily experiences and hopes. In these things, is the place to examine and see the huge reality that we're apart (and even "inside") of something grandscale. A reality that is finely focused all the way down to our "preappointed times and the boundries of our dwellings."3 God is aware of all circumstances and exactly where they're happening. In the case of Michelle and I, our financial needs and budget, rowdy neighbors around the complex, our communication and intimacy, our employment and daily experience it presents, our desires in ministry, and the recent "knocking" sound the bathroom fan has been making. He knows, "for in Him, we live and move..."
The frustrations, joys, and not-much-at-all's, God knows. The apostle Paul testified as well that we're in the "preappointed times and boundries of our dwellings," so that "they (all men) should seek the Lord, in hope that they might grope for Him and find Him..."4 Of course, we're pretty bad at finding him.. and pretty distracted.. and condemned. Thankfully he came to us.We have special insight via the gospel, that in the wrath-appeasing work of Jesus Christ we have full opportunity for a life of worship in spirit and truth to God, once unattainable.
He's there... and "not far from each one of us."5 So in the midst of some doubts, desires, assurances, confidences, needs, deteriorating cars, bills, slightly moldy shower facets- by faith in Jesus alone, and with newly directed hearts and worship, we'll reach for God and seek Him in an imperfect world and one day worship in full knowledge and "know fully, even as we are known fully."7
1- Acts 17:28
2 Acts 17:16
3- Acts 17:26
4- Acts 17:27
5- Acts 17:27
6- 1 Corinthians 13:12
