Day 95

“Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.” Rev 4:11 NASB.

The three great philosophical questions of life are: Why are we here? Where did we come from? Where are we going? All three questions are in play in Rev 4 and 5, nowhere more so than in this text.

Why are we here? To participate in continual, grateful, worshipful response to the God who made us.

Where did we come from? We all began in the mind and heart of God, who put shape on his thoughts when He created us.

Where are we going? We are going to live with him forever in a universe filled with love and peace.

What a wonderful frame to live by! How much better is Revelation’s view of the world than one where the three great philosophical questions are answered with a shrug! Without the insights of God’s revelations, we would be tempted to believe that we all ultimately descended from single-cell creatures in primordial mud. “Like father, like son” is a frightening concept when combined with that kind of past. The “where we came from” and “why we are here” questions are both answered by evolutionary science with something like “whatever.” I’d rather know that I originated with a thought in the mind of a loving God who wants me to live with a sense of purpose and meaning.

Without the insights of God’s revelations, the future looks dark indeed. I teach Stage 4 Science and Geography and it never ceases to amaze me how the secular textbooks I use warn us of many perils that this world faces.

Many take the Christian world view for granted. They aren’t conscious of the degree to which it provides stability and meaning to life. Without that world view eating and drinking, waking and sleeping tends to become empty routines, devoid of purpose.

LORD I pray that through the present crisis playing out in this world that many would seek an answer to the meaning of life.