Earth as a Footstool

Today’s reading: Acts 7:30-50

“However, the Most High doesn’t live in temples made by human hands.” - Acts‬ ‭7:48‬ ‭NLT‬‬

The one true God isn’t limited by time and space like we are. We are constantly reminded of our limitations. If we stay up too late and wake up too early, we feel it all day long. We can only go so long without eating before feeling hungry.

God had never actually asked David or Solomon to build a temple in His honor. The beauty of the tabernacle is that it was ever mobile, just like the pervasiveness of God’s presence throughout the earth (see Isaiah 6:3).

Now this is a God worth worshiping. He isn’t a god that any of us fashioned. He doesn’t play by our rules. In fact, his thoughts are not our thoughts (see Isaiah 55:9).

Stephen has purposefully crossed a line here, deconstructing their need for a temple with a sentence and a quotation from the hard-hitting Amos.

Father, you are a God worthy of our praise. You are unlimited in power and presence, able to pull us up and over any mountain.