Day 321 · Tuesday, November 17
In Him We Are
"for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’"ACTS 17:28
Transcript
Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 321, In Him We Are.
"For in him we live and move and have our being; as even some of your own poets have said, For we are indeed his offspring." Acts 17:28.
Picture the scene. Paul stands alone in the middle of the Areopagus, surrounded by Greek philosophers, statues of gods on every side, sophisticated ideas competing for airtime. And he doesn't open by shouting against the idols. He opens with a bridge: you already sense, somehow, that something bigger exists. Let me tell you who that something bigger is.
And then comes the line that crosses the centuries: in him we live and move and have our being. Notice the three verbs. Live — the very fact of existing, the heart beating, the lungs breathing, without you even having to think about it. Move — the choices, the work, the steps you take today, every small decision. And have our being — the self, the identity, who you are underneath it all. All three, together, held up by God, the whole time, without a pause.
This is not pretty poetry. It is the most concrete reality there is. You are not living on your own, in some indifferent universe that just happens to put up with you. You are living inside God — He is the air holding up your breath before you even notice you took one.
And Paul even quotes their own Greek poets: we are indeed his offspring. That's remarkable. Even outside faith in Christ, there were people catching a thread of truth: that there is a connection between humanity and the divine, that we were made in the image of someone greater. Paul takes that intuition and points it in the right direction — not just any god, but the living God, revealed in Jesus Christ.
Why does this matter for you today? Because it means no one is beyond God's reach. Not the toughest skeptic, not the most suspicious philosopher, not you, on the days you feel too far from faith to be found. If in God we live and move and have our being, then God is never far away — it's you who sometimes forgets you're inside Him the whole time.
Think about your routine today. The meetings, the tasks, the conversations, the traffic, the rush. All of it happens within the space God sustains. None of it is neutral or disconnected from Him. Every move you make has its place inside His life.
So here is the invitation: today, before each task — before you answer the phone, before you start work, before you leave the house — take one second to pause. And quietly acknowledge: it is in Him that I live and move and have my being right now. Let that truth become a habit, not just a doctrine.
Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE AREOPAGUS
Paul stands before the philosophers of Athens, surrounded by idols and ideas, and chooses to open not with accusation but with a bridge: the God he proclaimed was already, in some sense, the one they were reaching for.
WE LIVE IN HIM
"In him we live" is not a decorative phrase. Every breath, every heartbeat, every morning that dawns depends on God sustaining the very act of existing.
WE MOVE IN HIM
"We move" speaks of action, of work, of steps taken. No human movement happens outside the space God sustains and allows.
WE ARE HIS OFFSPRING
Paul quotes their own Greek poets to point to something Scripture confirms more deeply still: we were made in God's image, and so He is not far from any one of us.
NEAR TO THOSE STILL SEARCHING
If in God we live and move and have our being, then no one is beyond His reach — not the skeptical philosopher, not anyone who feels far from faith today.
LIVE AWARE OF HIM
Act: today, before each task, pause for one second and quietly acknowledge that it is in God you live, move, and have your being right now.