God Is One – The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Vision (1)

God Is One

The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Vision (1)

The worldview of God’s Law begins in God.

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.” Deuteronomy 6:4

The worldview which we find in God’s Law—spiritual, covenantal, redemptive, comprehensive, religious, and attainable—can be constructed within a framework of three facets. We may imagine this worldview as contained within the borders of an equilateral triangle, in which all the facets are connected to one another and all are necessary for the integrity of the whole.

The first facet of this worldview triangle represents the spiritual vision which gives meaning, vitality, direction, and shape to all other aspects of the worldview of God’s Law. At the center, the fulcrum and focal point of the spiritual vision of God’s Law, is God Himself. The worldview of God’s Law begins in God, and is defined, sustained, and fulfilled by God. We cannot understand the worldview of God’s Law, much less expect to gain any real benefit from it, unless we focus on God as the defining feature of that worldview and submit ourselves, soul and body, to what we discover in Him. When we focus on God in this way we observe, first of all, that God is One.

There is only one God, the God of Scripture. No other gods exist; thus, it is futile and dangerous to “have” any other gods besides this God or to divert our ultimate affection and obedience to any other being or creature, spiritual or material, real or imaginary, living or dead. God is One, and within Himself He is one in purpose, will, power, being, and attributes. There is no division or disruption in God; He does not change, does not deceive, and cannot die.

The God Who is One promulgates a worldview expressive of His character and will. Thus we should expect that worldview to be, like God Himself, reliable, durable, and characterized by integrity throughout. The more we improve our focus on and relationship with the one God, the better we will understand, the more we will appreciate, and the more eagerly we will live according to the worldview first outlined in His Law.

The first requirement of the worldview outlined in God’s Law is, therefore, that we should seek the Lord, to fear, obey, love, and serve Him in all things, and to keep His Law with all our soul and strength, so that all the goodness God has promised in His covenantal love may come to us in His way and time (Deut. 10:12, 13). God is One, and He has promulgated one worldview and one way to know Him and to enjoy all the fullness of blessing He intends. The beginnings of that worldview are to be found in the Law of God.

The worldview which animated the Celtic Revival (ca. 430-800 AD) was likewise grounded in God, as we can see in Patrick’s Confession (http://www.ailbe.org/columns/scriptorium/item/2299-trinitarian-and-orthodox).

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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).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.