"For in him we live, and move, and have our being..." Acts 17:28
I have a question; “How much does God have to do with and in your life”? If we study the scriptures we will see that God has something to do with every aspect of our life. Many people want to think that they have so much control over their life and decisions, when they really do not. The scriptures clearly detail that God controls everything. There are three words here that are so powerful and they are “Live”, “Move”, and “Being”. Live – means every part of life is from God and is a gift. God gave Adam and Eve a life and they become living souls. They continued to live after the fall due to Gods grace to them. God could have just taken both of their lives and sent them to the eternal lake of fire but He did not, God punished them and moved on allowing them to live on. Just before the flood God said He was repented that He had made man and destroyed all but 8 living souls. God said in Job 14:5 "Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;" This means life will end when God ends it. We live spiritually because of Gods grace, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:” Ephesians 2:8 there is no question that salvation is of, and from God. Salvation is life and life can only come from God. Adam did not choose to become a living soul and neither does man when he is saved. All life comes from God. Move – It is also by the grace of God that we have anything in life. Anything we accomplish in life is of God. Even down to being saved and what church you join is of God. Your stature in life is of God, and everything you are or that you have is of God. God make us what we are and we all need to understand that. God can make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor if He so chooses. Therefore the details of life are from God and the more we all understand that the easer it is to accept what life is. “So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.” Romans 9:16 Being – This word means “we are”. Paul said of himself in 1 Corinthians 15:10 "But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain..." Paul means everything he was in life both mortal and spiritual. We are the same as Paul, whatever we are in life is what God has made us. Our entire being is at His pleasure. We have nothing to do with life or our being even though man wants to believe they do. If it were not by Gods grace in our moving through life, mankind would self-destruct. Neither the being of the universe nor mankind could survive without God controlling it all and every detail of it. People, mankind wants to think they control their own destiny that life is what they want it to be, that live is under their control, but God says different. Preachers will say “God can’t change mans will” but God says if God does not change it, it will never change. We all need to understand that God is our life, God is our mover in live, and God is our total being in life and therefore we like Paul can conclude that we are what we are by Gods grace.
