• I’ve always thought the term “Christian worldview” was an odd one — as though even after being made a “new creation” you had to select a lens through which to see everything, and one of those lenses was called “Christian.”
• David doesn’t have so much a Christian “worldview” as a capacity to see God in all things. When David looks around, he sees the hand of God, the steadfast love of God, the power of God, the gloriousness of God. God fills his field of vision. Think how, even as a boy, David sees the real offense of Goliath: “who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?” This is David’s fixed perspective: to see all things in relation to God, because God is present and working in all things.
• When David sins (read Ps. 51), his hope is in God and God’s nature, his character. It is against God that he has sinned; it is God who will cleanse him; God who, in hiding his face from David’s sin, in effect makes the sin vanish; God who creates a new heart in David; God who restores David’s joy (lost because he has offended God); God who will deliver him; God who will open his lips to praise Him again; God in whom Zion ultimately hopes.
• When Paul says, “ for me to live is Christ and to die is gain,” it is in essence the same perspective. The Psalmist says, “…besides Thee I desire nothing on earth.” These people are God-obsessed. They are naturally aliens and strangers here on earth, perhaps even in their own churches.
• Rather than taking people to this highest of all impulses, this highest and best of all loves, the Church typically now speaks to the greatness of the love of God from the perspective of human need. “We are depraved and broken, but the love of God is so great that we can be fully restored.” This is of course true, but it is only one, and not the greatest one, of the truths of life in Christ.
• The greatest truth is the plain fact that there is a Messiah, Christ himself. It is not his usefulness to us that makes him great, but the fact of who he is. The truth that overpowers our consciousness is that he is the way, the truth and the life, he is all in all, all things being made by him and for him. A forgiven, healed soul is a good thing, but it must be on its way to being a far better thing: absolutely abandoned to the King of Kings, pursuing a life that can be described in no other term than worship. This is not a view we have on life; it is life itself.