WHAT IS YOUR GOD VIEW?

I hear a lot of talk about world view people have these days.  I am more concerned about what God view people have these days.  It seems to me that my God view strongly affects my world view. I read this quote by A.W. Tozer.

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us…Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God.  For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like.”

To me this not only deals with worship or the Church.  It deals with life and

how I respond to it in every situation of my life.

This world has a propensity to “dummy down” everything.  Things are lowered to meet our standard of knowledge so that we can feel like we know a lot more than we really do.  There is a lot of information being transferred to people in bits and pieces, enough for us to form an opinion and enter into a discussion on just about any matter.  All that is required is to hit Like-Comment-Share, without any research, deep thought, or pondering before the news stream moves on.  Our world view become superficial, built on information and fast facts alone.

This world view that is going around has a propensity to “dummy down” God, if it even includes God at all.  Culture is looked to as the end all and be all.  What is relevant in the here and now is what matters.  Quick answers to problems are merely band aids and merely cover the wounds, not heal them.

The world view that leaves God out of it, or puts forth a “dummy down” portrait of God, will not have substance.  Without substance life is not sustainable.  Without sustainability life will decay and die.

God created the world.  God loves the world.  It makes sense to me that if God is the center of the world view that we hold, it will be a truly better world than anything that human beings can construct.

What comes into our minds when we think of God is the most important thing about us, and the most important thing we can do to create a whole and healthy world view.  That is where to begin…that is where to focus…that is the only thing that will produce and bear good and lasting fruit.