FEEL AFTER HIM

Acts 17:23-27 (KJV)
“23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things...;
26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:”
Verse 21 reveals the paradigm the Athenians were thinking from: “Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.” Paul’s audience was a people always looking for the newest mystery to discuss. There are those who actually measure their intellectual strength on their ability to perceive or find what others have not been able to grasp.
In their discussions they are lost not knowing God they have no name for. Operating without a net to believe primitive reasoning for plagues and sickness as being a manifestation of an angry god, then, when the plague or sickness ceases this god (idol) is no longer angry. This is how they came to inscribe on this altar “To the unknown god.”
The power of reason will never touch God; reason alone can never make Him tangible or understood rightly. It will take our hearts groping after Him; we must feel our way towards Him to find Him. Virgin birth, from another world, resurrected from the dead and alive forever more; yes, beyond reason.
With a longing grope our consciousness takes on spiritual vision and we simply catch a glimpse. There He is, desiring to live in our hearts.