God has made the world and everything in it, including you!

“Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you: “God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.” (Acts 17:23-24 NKJV)

He gives to all life, breath, and all things!

“Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.” (Acts 17:25 NKJV)

God has preappointed exactly WHEN in history each person will live

“And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times…” (Acts 17:26a NKJV)

God has preappointed exactly WHERE each person will dwell

“... and the boundaries of their dwellings,” (Acts 17:26b NKJV)

God did it for a reason, that people will seek and find Him

“… so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’” (Acts 17:28-29 NKJV)

Therefore …

From the above passage we learn that God has made us. He has also determined when in history we should live as well as where we are to live. And He did it all for a reason, to enable people to find Him. In other words, you were born when you were born, at the time you were to live, exactly where you live, in order for you to help your neighbors come to know Him. Wow think of that! That begs the following question:

What are you doing to reach your neighbors for Him?

“Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” (Acts 17:31-32 NKJV)

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (Eph. 2:10 ESV)