WOYWW: Unknown God

I am not working on my desk this time. I bought a huge canvas 
and will post my progress on Facebook, Instagram and here as well. 

Last night, I finished this background. 

“What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you.” 
Acts 17:23

There were many shrines in Athen, some dedicated to Aphrodite, 

goddess of beauty and love, the handsome Apollo, god of healing and arts,

 Ares, god of war and violence, Artemis, virgin goddess of the hunt and animals, 
and many many others. Paul said he looked carefully at the shrines, 

no doubt they were artistically executed, but he noticed one in particular. 

It was inscribed, ‘To an Unknown God’. “What you worship in ignorance, 

this is what I am proclaiming to you,” he told the Athenians in the Areopagus, 

or ‘Ares’ Hill’ a place where people congregated. 

Some people like Dionysius and Damaris responded and believed. 
Others scoffed when Paul started talking about the resurrection of the dead. 

Many of us pick and choose what we like from the Bible. 

When I was in U.P. High School, the Gideon Bible Society gave each of us 

in our class a cute red Bible. We had to promise to read it. 

I very eagerly started to read, and continued to read, until I reached this verse, 

“Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life 
in this world will keep it for eternal life.” 
That is from the Gospel of John 12:25. 

After reading that verse which I heartily disagreed with 
because I loved my life, 

I stopped reading the Bible for several years. 

Many people like me, and like the people of Athens, 
want to make our own god. We want a god conformed
 to our own image of what God should be. 

We did not want the truth, we wanted to make our own truth. 

Happily when I was older I decided after several 
Life in the Spirit Seminars 

that I wanted to know God, really know Him, 

not my own version of God or preference. 

The “unknown God” honored my desire and my zeal to know Him. 
He spoke and made Himself available and I loved Him as my first love. 

How inconceivable that the God of the Universe, the earth and sea and sky, 

would stoop down to our level and meet us where we are! 

He WANTS us to know Him! 

If we just open up a space for Him in our hearts and lives, 

He will come in and sit with us and keep His promises! 

For my growing collection of prompts, 

inspirations, creative pursuits,

courageous artists and their art, join me here!

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Joining the lovely Julia Dunnit for a 

peek at desks and projects!

I find a lot of inspiration

visiting my friends here:

Count Your Blessings, Word Art Wednesday, 

 Unite,   Cheerleaders of our Faith, 

Wow Us Wednesdays, Sitting Among Friends

The Weekly Creative, Three Word Wednesday
Word Filled Wednesdays
Great Blog Train Bloghop, Cheerleaders of Faith
Women with Intention Wednesdays
Christian Blogger Link Up, Word Filled Wednesdays

Thoughtful Thursday,  Hearts4Home Thursdays, Thought Provoking Thursday
Tune In Thursday Homemaking Party, Purposeful Faith

Thriving Thursdays with Serving Joyfully

Thursday Favorites, Desire to Inspire Legacy Leaver Thursday
Beloved Brews Thursdays, Sincerely, Paula

Creative Things, Bloom! Soul Survival, Inspiration Gallery
Hearts for Home Thursday

Dance with Jesus Friday, Lyli Dunbar, Fresh Market Link up
Grace & Truth Link Up, Dance with Jesus
Glimpses of His Beauty

Blessings!

Patsy