Now and then, my grandsons will come over to visit during the day, and from the quiet of my study, I will hear coming from the television the familiar song… “Who lives in a pineapple under the sea…SpongeBob Squarepants.” Now, as strange as it might seem for us to try to imagine what in the world is a “SpongeBob SquarePants”?…and, why would he live in a pineapple?…sometimes it is just as difficult for some to understand how it is we live in God.
In Acts 17, we find the Apostle Paul in Athens, addressing the Areopagus, trying to communicate to them the scope and extent of God. He says in verses 27-28: “His purpose in all of this was that the nations should seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him—though he is not far from any one of us. For in him we live and move and exist. As one of your poets says, ‘We are his offspring.’”
Now, I remember as a child, I kind of pictured God as living in outer space. But, it would be a truer statement to say that space is in God. Everything is in God. God holds all of creation in the palm of His hand. He holds the whole world and everything in it in His hand. That includes me…and it includes you. Even as a sponge is in the ocean…though likely not in a pineapple…you are in God. He is your dwelling place. And, it is in your dwelling place that, as Paul wrote, “..in him we live and move and exist.”
Thank you God, for including everyone including me…within the reach of Your great love. Amen
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