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Your Worldview Serves as the Foundation for Your Life!

As we live out our lives, we will inevitably create a perspective on life, living and, in the process, establish a worldview that will have a profound impact on how we see and prioritize life’s challenges and opportunities.

In an essay on Reality I wrote many years ago, the second paragraph says,

“All of us have heard the expression “get real” which usually means to deal with life as it really is and stop dreaming. That is good advice as reality is the ultimate judge of the value of all of our actions and decisions.”

Once again, I emphasize reality is still the ultimate judge of the value of all of our actions and decisions. The process of separating fact from fiction is a life-long struggle!

Mankind is Immersed in a Sea of Satanic Deception!

The earth was forfeited to Satan when Adam disobeyed a direct command given to him by God. He died spiritually, along with every other human being that would be born of a human father and was reduced to a life of servitude instead of the life of rulership that had been planned for him by God!

In Genesis 1:26-28 it is written:

“²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

²⁷ So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

²⁸ God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Adams disobedience resulted in judgment and death; in Genesis 3:17-19 it is written:

¹⁷ To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;
    through painful toil you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.
¹⁸ It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.
¹⁹ By the sweat of your brow
    you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”

These verses describe the rise and fall of the human race; from ruler to tenant farmer all in one brief span of time. The tragic results of this fall continue today with every human, born of a human father, being born spiritually dead and indwelt by a fallen, Adamic, sin nature. That is not a very pretty beginning to human history, I think we would all agree!

How About You and Your Life?

You are the world’s top expert on you, you know more about you than anyone else on the planet; in light of that advantage, how would you say you’re managing in life? Are you pleased with the progress you’ve made and the overall situation in which you find yourself?

You have been subjected to enormous pressures by the world; pressures seeking to mold you into the world’s image and those pressures have been accompanied by serious deceptions. Efforts by the world to convince you that what you can see is all you can expect from life!

You are living in a world where Satan is the “Prince of the Power of the Air”, a fallen world where the human species is born spiritually dead and inhabited by a fallen sin nature. No one, born of a human father, has been spared that fate; every human with a human father has shared those same deadly characteristics!

To make matters even worse, you are living on a spiritual battlefield where spiritual war has been continuously waged for thousands of years and there is absolutly nothing you can do on your own to solve any of those deadly challenges.

Are You Ready for a Savior Yet?

While some of this may be news to you, God has known from eternity past you were going to need big-time help. That is why God sent his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to pay the penalty for the sin of Adam, which you inherited, plus all your personal sins and shortcomings by dying on the cross in your place!

By simply turning to Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, you can be born again into a new family and, once and for all, leave your fallen, sin-cursed family behind! In John 3:16-21 it is written:

“¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. ¹⁹ This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. ²¹ But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.”

A Worldview Based on the Bible leads to Eternal Life; a Worldview Based on the World leads to Eternal Judgment in the Lake of Fire!