In His Name Devotionals
REALITY ROADMAP
In His Name Devotionals
REALITY ROADMAP
The Roadmap of reality—we carry it inside; we take our cues on a wide range of subjects from it.
What does it mean to be human? What is the purpose of life? What do I value? How do I rank priorities? What’s right? What’s wrong? What happens when I die? This roadmap of reality is often called one’s worldview.
In the great divide between Modernity and Postmodernity, there is a third option. Modernity says everything must be scientific and secular; Postmodernity counters that reality is more spiritual and idiosyncratic. If the former debunked faith in the unseen, the later often seems to encourage believing for unworthy reasons. One can generate arrogant skepticism; its disavowal can create ingenuous naiveté.
Have you ever had a conversation with someone about faith; someone who admitted to being confused about a Christian’s worldview?
Is a believer someone who sets the brain aside on Sunday morning? Thus, for an hour or so becoming anti-rational and gullible? Someone who offers the world a Forrest Gump grin, and with eyes closed takes a deep breath—and “just believes”? This is one of the caricatures of faith offered by Modernists.
Is a person of faith someone who mounts a full-scale assault on reason and glories in uncertainty—divorcing religious life from medical practice or historical research in order to celebrate the transforming power of myth? That is a view of Christianity from the Postmodernist perch.
Believers stand on different ground, and it’s not anti-rational. Our primary source documents affirm this: “Faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ” (Rom. 10:17). Yes, there is a relationship between faith and what one hears, ponders, and concludes about Jesus, and that is certainly not anti-rational.
On the other hand, faith is not the final line in a logician’s proof. God is a person, and persons most often make themselves known to one another directly. They just show up. There’s a personal encounter.
Jesus of Nazareth showed up. We saw God with a human face. Because He was Who He was and did what He did, every other claim related to a Christian worldview is justified. God exists. The Biblical story that has Jesus at its center is the Word of God. Jesus is our hope for this life and eternity. No wonder we live our lives for the purpose of giving Him honor.
Jesus Christ isn’t an argument. He is the personal embodiment of all that is true. He is Himself The Truth—and the reality roadmap for all we can know, believe, and be.
