January 10, 2006

[Rev. Doc]

Living With A Worldview

"Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and you nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways."
Daniel 5:23

James Engel summarized the belief system and the presuppositions that commonly prevail among what he calls modern man:

God, if He exists at all, is just an impersonal moral force. Man basically has the capacity within himself to improve morally and make the right choices. Happiness consists of unlimited material acquisition. There really is no objective basis for right and wrong. The supernatural is just a figment of someone's imagination. If a person lives a "good life", the eternal destiny is assured. The Bible is nothing other than a book written by man.

Unfortunately, as we see by the condition our world is in today morally, if man controls his own destiny hopelessness will fill the void.

Prayer: Ask God to help you not be swayed by the thinking of the world, but to have the mind of Christ.

"The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems for he sees at once that these have to do with matters which at the most cannot concern him very long."
~A.W. Tozer