About living, moving, and having our being…
Acts 17: 28 `For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your
own poets have said, `We are his offspring.'
We are all children of God for He made us each and every one. We live and
move and have our being in Him in a way that is like a fish living, moving, and
finding life by living in water. A fish lives, moves, and finds life from the
water in which the fish lives. If the fish is taken out of the water, the fish
dies. In much the same way, each of us, although we often refuse to recognize
the reality, lives in the supernatural living water of Christ. God is our
supplier of life. God is the supplier of the living water that gives us life.
When we refuse to come to grips with the fact that we are under the power and
influence of God or when we rebel against the power and influence of God, we
flop ourselves out of the living water and live our life gasping and choking for
what we need the most…God's living water. For sure, people can be really
stupid in spiritual terms. Fish do not want to live on land, but people want to
get out from under the power of God that keeps them alive. Our secret to a life
of peace and love in a fallen world is to always live each day in the peace and
love of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is Christ who continually supplies us with His
living water from which all of us live, move, and have our being.
