A Christian Worldview
People kick around the word “worldview” a lot. I remember when I first began hearing about it. I wondered, "What does that mean?" After a bit, I could give you a definition based on context. Yet, I really couldn't give you a strong meaning. Since then, the Lord has revealed a lot more about this thing called worldview. I'm so thankful because the more I ponder what I've learned, the more excited I get about it. I would like to share with you a little bit about having a Christian worldview.
The foundation for one's worldview has to do with the meaning of life. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE? Why am I here? It all really comes down to that. What is my purpose?
If you believe you are a big accident that happened as a result of some odd explosion billions of years ago, and your grandmother is that fish with flippers they recently found (which by the way is not that unusual since seals and turtles have similar fin structures), then the meaning of your life is quite...well, meaningless. You have no meaning in life. You're an accident. You have no purpose. You can make up a purpose, but it's ultimately meaningless. Then you die. That's it. You're dead. Whatever you did was meaningless, really—especially when you believe all humans evolve into flying space people.
However if you believe like I do that you were created by God, and not only that, but He designed you in a very special and unique way to fulfill a very special and unique role on this earth, then your life has meaning.
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10
Not only are you unique and have a special purpose, God thought of you and planned for that purpose before He even made earth.
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. Ephesians 1:4
Not only were you created by God, every single day of your life matters to God.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Psalm 139:13-16
God also has a very great plan for you. What you do with your time, your days, your life matters to Him. You are extremely rare and special. Very special. You don't make up your own destiny. You don't determine your purpose. If you did, you would live in mediocrity. Yet if you seek God with all your heart, He will reveal and lead you into His purpose for your life. It will be a purpose that will prosper you. You will be prosperous in the ways that really count—ways that are prosperous in the sight of God.
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the Lord. Jeremiah 29:11-13
A Christian worldview offers us meaning in life. It gives us hope. Our lives have purpose.
We are here for a specific reason. OUR CHILDREN ARE HERE FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE! Our highest calling is to make that truth known to their sweet and dear hearts. They are special and have a special purpose for their lives. We must tell them that every single day. When they leave our home, it is so important that they know that they know that they are valuable, significant, and important because God has designed them in His image and for a specific purpose. It is so important that they learn how to seek God's plan—His perfect will for them. We should pray Colossians 1:9 over them with consistency.
How sad for the atheists who believe they are nothing of significance unless they achieve something that some arbitrary system deems valuable. How sad that they think they are only as important as the trillions of earthworms in the park. How heartbreaking that they think this life is all there is to their existence. There is no peace for a person that believes these things. We know, as Christians, the only peace available to mankind comes through the Lord. We know from experience. We know because we all sought after the things of the world, always looking for that next accomplishment or conquest that would finally bring satisfaction—and we all found the satisfaction short-lived. Then we finally sought God and for the first time found true, lasting peace. That bottomless pit that resided in our hearts—that emptiness, that desperate loneliness—could only be filled with God.
Ultimately, the foundation for your worldview is what you believe about origins. What you believe about where you came from, where you are going, and who decides that. We have a reason for our existence. A reason to be. A reason to keep on going. A reason to pray. A reason to seek God. Yes, a reason for living.
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