In my world, God is in control. In fact, it’s His world. He created it, He sustains it, and He will some day redeem it. Even though God created a perfect and peaceful world, mankind has fallen out of relationship with its Maker via sin. Now, every part of creation has been tainted by sin. It is obvious that this world is not a perfect place. Sickness, disease, greed, poverty, and death (among other thing) are rampant. The world is not getting better over time, nor is it improving in morality and ethics. As mankind uses technology to find cures for cancer and Aids, it struggles to keep up with the latest deadly virus or natural disaster. For all the altruistic good that mankind achieves, he continues to fight a losing battle. This has caused the postmodern world I see around me to lose faith and trust in anything and everything and ultimately God. Mankind continues, as it always has, to choose to do “what is right in its own eyes.” The mantra of the day is: “What is good for you is good for you, and what is good for me is good for me.” The operative word in the world around me is "relativism."
Some may call this a pessimistic view of life. I call it realism because I am not without hope. My hope stems from a belief that the Creator of the world loves me and has a plan for my life. He saved me by dying on a Roman cross over two thousand years ago. In this act of divine judgment and grace, Jesus Christ opened a narrow way for a sinful world to be made right with God. I have freely chosen to be His disciple and bondservant, thus subjecting myself to His agenda and commands. The postern modern relativism I live in defines this as one possibility, whereas I remain dogmatic and believe that this is the one and only true way. My God, and therefore world, has absolutes and ultimatums. However, in my boldness, I remain humbled by the fact that God is in control and not me. God calls His true disciples to share the life and love-giving message of Jesus. He expects me and other bondservants to engage the world in which we live. I am called to be in the world but not of it. I will not seclude myself from the world and become isolated in order to avoid an “unholy” tainting, yet I also choose to exclude myself from certain “worldly” behavior, which I know may cause me to stumble. I will encourage my fellow -bondservants to do the same. My goal is to remain pure before God, while becoming all things to all people.
