Each week, I post what the devotional that was used on the back of our Church Bulletin at Haven of Hope.  However, this week, this post would be the first time that anyone at Haven of Hope will end up seeing it because I forgot to print the backside of the Church Bulletin this week!  Oops!

Acts 17:28 “For in Him, we live, we move, and have our being…..for we are His offspring.”

I have been thinking about Acts 17:28 for the last few weeks.  That verse states, “For in him we live and move and have our being.” I have been mindful lately that I am totally dependent on God, sort of like a fish in water.  I doubt if a fish has to think (if a fish could even think) about being in the water.  I would suppose that a fish could even take being in the water for granted. 

But have you ever seen a fish out of water?  They thrash about, their gills desperately seeking the water from which they derive their existence.  If they can’t get back into the water, after a while they just die.  That is how I am in relationship to the Lord.  But sometimes I can forget that truth.

The verse says that we live, move and have our being.  There can be no better expression of our total dependence on God.  I think the psalmist understood this dependence as well when he wrote, “My times are in your hands” (Psalm 31:15).   ~~  John Stanko

Quote:

Since you can’t imagine a place where He isn’t, you might as well imagine Him with you”

~~ Bill Johnson

I pray that this blesses you!