The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

acts 17:24-28

We can choose to hold onto something as highly important, or we can choose to view it objectively. The places and people groups of this world are always shifting and changing. War, disease and natural disasters move people from one land to another. Cultures overlap and blend or fade away.

What is really permanent in the heart of humanity? The need for meaning and guidance. God is mysterious until he isn’t; a creator who seeks communion with his creation. We can cling to the perishable countries and cultures of Earth, or we can cling to our eternal Creator. Time will tell which one lasts.

Ethan Kirl