The Great Unknown

 Acts 17:22-23 (NKJV)

22) Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; 23) for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you

For living in the Information Age, I’m amazed at how clueless I can feel. Surrounded by all of this data, I think I’m just getting dumber. I mean, I look around and think, “Wow. Look at all the stuff I don’t know.” I think most people don’t know where they really are or where they’re really going. We’re just stumbling around in the dark. And you know where that leaves you? That’s right. Lost.

For generations, men and women have been raised in a world surrounded by awesome displays of a brilliant Creator. Everywhere you look, creation screams the existence of a grand Maker. We have stood for ages before these wonders with eyes wide, jaws dropped, scratching our heads, but to us they just remained monuments to an unknown god. So, we claw at the edges, stretch as wide as we can and gather up what we can reach. We crumple it all down, wad it together, fold it up nice and neatly. We roll it up real tight and try to squeeze it into our tiny, tiny skulls. And then, we give it names like Science, Creativity, Reason, and Love. But we don’t realize is that these are all just parts, pieces, and fragments of a greater Whole, a God that is still… unknown.

Luckily for us, this God is not happy with being the “Great Unknown”. He desires to make Himself KNOWN more than anything else. So, He did what we couldn’t do. He stretched His arms wide and reached across the immeasurable distance of Himself and gathered Himself up at the corners. He crumpled Himself down, wadded Himself up, folded it all up nice and neatly. He rolled all Himself up real tight and squeezed into a tiny, tiny baby. Then, He gave Himself a name and lived a life that fully made known the unknown God. That was Jesus.

And now, you know.

So, no matter what you’re looking for, stumbling around in the dark, try looking there. You might learn something amazing. You just might find out that you’re not as lost as you thought you were. And you know where that leaves you? That’s right. Found.