God’s greeting and welcome speaks to our fundamental dependence: that “in him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28), and that this “him” is not a generic deity but the triune God, for it is in the Son that “all things hold together” (Col. 1:17). In short, God’s welcome is a gracious way of reminding us of our utter dependence, cutting against the grain of myths of self-sufficiency that we’ve been immersed in all week long.
