PSALM 8<\/b><\/p>\n
What is man that You are mindful of him?<\/i><\/p>\n
(Ps. 8:4a)<\/i><\/p>\n
Once we understand that God is the source of truth, that He is the standard of truth, that He is, in fact, truth itself<\/i>, we must ask the question, \u201cI how does that truth relate to me?\u201d To answer this question, we must realize that the truth about man cannot be known apart from truth about God<\/i>. If we believe, for instance, that God does not exist, or that metaphysical considerations have no meaning, then man himself has no significance. Man cannot define himself in relationship to himself, for he, after all, is not the standard of existence. Man can only rightly understand himself in the context of God as the Creator of all things.<\/p>\n
We must always remember Jesus\u2019 words. He is the truth, and Satan is the father of lies. If you remove God from the equation of existence, or if you distort man\u2019s conception of God\u2019s nature, then you remove truth itself. All you have is a lie. And this has certainly been the sad consequence of humanistic philosophy. In their stringent effort to banish God from the universe, humanist thinkers assume they are doing man a favor. They seek to exalt man, but by refusing to acknowledge God and to see with a Christian worldview, they debase him.<\/p>\n
It is God who gives man significance, purpose, and meaning. Outside of God, man is nothing. Francis Schaeffer once wrote that when the social sciences were made part of a \u201cclosed cause-and-effect system,\u201d it was not only God who died, man died. \u201cAnd within this framework love died.\u2026 Man becomes a zero. People and all they do become only a part of the machinery.\u201d<\/p>\n
Man is not an island unto himself. He is a creature made in the image of God. He is not a biological machine, devoid of an immortal soul. He is not a mere animal, the end of a long series of evolutionary leaps. Where is the dignity and nobility of man in such schemes? Only when we see man as made in the image of God, as subject to the will of God, do we see man as a noble creature, endowed with feelings, rational capabilities, and an immortal soul. And as a man he must consider his life not in the context of the moment, but of eternity where he will either dwell with his Maker or be cast from His life-giving presence forever.<\/p>\n
CORAM DEO<\/b><\/p>\n
Jeremiah 3\u20134<\/p>\n
2 Thessalonians 3<\/p>\n
What do drug addiction, alcoholism, and other forms of self-contempt reveal about man\u2019s view of himself? What do you expect in our society as man continues to reject God and harden himself against the Gospel of Jesus Christ? What effects are you seeing today? Pray for God\u2019s mercy on our land.<\/p>\n
For further study: Gen. 1:26\u201327; 5:1; 9:6 \u2022 Job 32:8 \u2022 James 3:9\u201312<\/i><\/p>\n
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