Heralds Digest

“Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭ 17:30 ‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/114/act.17.30.nkjv     The major challenge with all religious observances is the establishment of a fruitful relationship with the invisible God. Besides the demand for faith in order to clear all doubts, intimate relationship with God requires a sincere letting down of the intentional garb of ignorance against the omnipotence in the Creator of heaven and earth. By the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Paul on the Areopagus had to draw the attention of the Athenians to the fact that it takes an insightful creation of philosophy in the mind of any Atheist, freethinker, and religious fanatic to wear off the confronting conviction about the existence of the true God and His righteousness. Even those who struggle with the call to holiness and righteousness as free gifts arising from believers’ relationship with God need a religious cove...

“...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 http://bible.com/114/act.17.27-28.nkjv The knowledge of God is not meant to be limited to human gravitation to worship, but the daily manifestation of God's divine ability in the affairs of man. Like the Areopaghites, the acknowledgment of the existence of God leads many to a daily worship of the 'Unknown God' - without a notable evidence of His influence in our everyday life. Whereas, God speaks daily through life's activities and experiences, more than or without man's appreciation of His abiding residency. The creation of an artificial God out of human devotion, activities and interest in life represents a notable idol and a distraction from the needed appreciation of the exist...