Our church is doing a year-long study in Acts.
And there’s a part in Chapter 14 where Paul and Barnabas are sharing the Good News in what’s now considered modern-day Turkey, and the Turkish people are so enamored, they start worshipping them.
Paul and Barnabas are both horrified by this prospect, tearing their clothes and shouting:
“Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them. In the past, he let all nations go their own way. Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.”
Did you catch that bolded part? Even though God has let those who don’t believe in Him go their on way, He still provides them goodness.
This is why even the most hard-hearted atheist still has beauty in their lives.
As a former hard-hearted atheist, I can certainly attest to this.
I just felt the need to point this out because how easily we all can fall into that trap of thinking–that we’re the reason we’re alive.
We’re the reason we’re breathing.
We’re the reason good things happen.
Oh, what folly in thinking such as that.
Just a heads up that Unanswered: Laments in Verse is now available for you to download for free!
A collection of laments in verse paying homage to the One who hears our sorrows.
Ericka Clay 
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