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Sincere Search

  “ so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring .’” Acts‬ ‭17:27-28‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ There is no doubt that searching for God is the sincere motive of all religions. For the Athenian philosophers, the sincerity of this motive was driven by a motto inscribed as ‘ To the unknown God ’ on their service altar. They have always searched for God within the boundary of their own imagination. Whereas, God is Sovereign and He encompasses the infinite limits of all living, moving, and imagination. Shouldn’t we just let Him do the searching, while we simply surrender? Skeptic search has a made-up mindset and interests about the issues at stake; and it is just searching for collaborators. But when we truly come with an open heart, the truth about the state of our hearts and His sincere purpose w...

Creator’s Creation

  “so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭17:27-28‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/114/act.17.27-28.nkjv The concept of creativity can be viewed from the perspective of both the Creator and the creatures. Albeit, it is understandable why we are limited to easily grope for the creatures’ perspective. Unfortunately, as knowledge and technology advances, innovation and creativity have further strengthen the relevance of the creatures’ perspective. However, to the philosophers in Athens, Paul presented the Creator’s perspective as the most reliable view on the subject of creativity. While no one can by knowledge search find out God, all of man’s creativity are within His creation. And when we became messed up by sin and cannot deliver ourselves by our creativity, ...