“For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.” (Acts 17:23)
Helen Keller was blind, deaf and mute. No one had been able to communicate with her until Ann Sullivan came to the Keller home. Most of us know at least part of the story. When she was an adult she trusted Christ as her Savior. In her testimony she said, “I knew God was out there but I never knew His name or how to find Him. He was unknown to me.”
In our text, Paul the Apostle was speaking to some very religious people in Athens. He was seeing their gods, which they had on every corner, and was observing their worship. For fear they might leave out a god they made an altar described in our text.
The psalmist said, “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork.” (Psalm 19:1) The Bible further states, “For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead…” (Romans 1:20)
If God can reveal Himself to a blind, deaf, mute, He surely can reveal Himself to the sighted, hearing and speaking. He revealed Himself to the world when He came as a little baby called, “Emmanuel,” which means, God with us.
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