Read Acts 17:24-31. Paul characterized God in various ways, each to widen the message about God!
God is the divine Creator and the universal Lord (v. 24). The “God, who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands” (NKJV).
God is the bountiful Giver (v. 25). “Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.”
God is the Almighty Ruler (v. 26). “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings.”
God is the unseen Spirit (vs. 27-28). “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.’”
God is the tender Father (vs. 28-30). “‘…For we are also His offspring.’ Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.”
God is the righteous Judge (v. 31). “Because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
Let us all see every one of the attributes of God and praise Him from Whom all blessings flow!
