The Ultimate Question (Part 1) |
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| September 29, 2007 | 0 Comments |
Honestly, you don't need a huge billboard to explain that the world does not adjust itself to meet your needs! It pushes ahead with its own agenda, shaping and molding our minds. Maybe you feel like you're just not in control and it's just too difficult to do anything about it. Even as a Christian, you just don't feel equipped.
Have you found yourself believing opinions about something you heard on the news, or from a friend, a song, or maybe a movie. Our beliefs can change sometimes without us even recognizing it. It's very subtle how things like this happen. The world doesn't miss an opportunity to fill us full of opposing views, ideas, and concepts that we often never take time to challenge. This is a BIG problem the Bible characterizes as worldly thinking or what might be called human viewpoint.
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. (Col. 2:8)
So how, as Christians, should we address this issue? Can God's Word supply us with a worldview that can be understood and trusted; a Divine viewpoint useful in all areas of life? Or is the Bible just an old ancient book that has little to no value for the "normal" things of life. It's nice to read on occasion for a little pick-me-up, but can it provide the ultimate standard for all truth?
It comes down to this, if the Bible is not the very truth of God then we can set ourselves up to be our own final authority in life. So the real question we should be asking ourselves is, "who is my final authority?"



