To Love Jesus – Foundations of a Worldview

To Love Jesus
Foundations of a Worldview

John 15:10

“If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.”

Jesus is the beginning, center, and end of the Biblical worldview. In the Scriptures, all roads lead to Jesus. And those roads begin their journey toward Him in the Law of God, the first five books of the Bible.

Now we might wonder why Jesus is so much a focus of the Bible? The answer is obvious to any who know Him.

Jesus is God’s Son, His Word, Redeemer, Savior, Lord, and King. He is the fairest of all the sons of men (Ps. 45:2), the loveliest, most wonderful, majestic, glorious, and honorable Being there ever was. He is the beauty of God’s temple, whether in its heavenly or earthly manifestation (cf. Pss. 47, 93; Eph. 2:19-22).

Simply put, Jesus is amazing. And amazing to know.

Jesus is central to Scripture because God wants us to see Him as He is, know Him for what He has accomplished, and love Him as Savior and Lord and King. Indeed, eternal life, as Jesus Himself said, consists in knowing (loving) Jesus and His Father (John 17:3).

Jesus appears throughout the Scriptures, beginning in the books of Moses—as Jesus explained—because God doesn’t want us to miss Him. He wants us to love Jesus.

But loving Jesus is not just a matter of seeing, admiring, and adoring Him. Jesus says that if we truly love Him, we will keep His commandments.

Now where are those commandments to be found? Throughout Scripture, of course, but beginning in the Law of God. God wants us to love Jesus, for in Him we find the truth of life, the way to live it, and fullness of it, all in One. Jesus is the Good Life, and loving Jesus is the way into that life.

And to love Jesus is to keep His commandments. So as we begin this study of Biblical worldview, in which Jesus will play so large a part, we should really begin with the five books of Moses, the Law of God.

Act: How conscious are you of keeping the commandments of Jesus? Do you pray about this? Think about it? Ponder situations and opportunities, so that you will obey the Lord in them all? If not, how will you or Jesus or anyone know that you love Him?

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Except as indicated, Scripture taken from the New King James Version. © Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T. M. Moore, editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).