The Good Life – Foundations of a Worldview

The Good Life
Foundations of a Worldview

Romans 7:12
Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

Everyone is seeking some version of “the good life.”

Few—very few—are they who devote themselves to seeking misery, discomfort, pain, sorrow, and suffering as their highest aspirations in life. No, we want “the good life,” and our greatest challenge is trying to define that so that we can seek it day by day.

In the Christian worldview the “good life” is the “God life”—life “under the heavens,” rather than “under the sun” (to recall Solomon). The “good life” is the holy and just life, the life lived and taught by the best Man Who ever lived, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus is the Way to real life. He is the Truth about the good life. He is the Good Life!

And He is holy and just, as well as good, because He came to fulfill the Word of God, beginning in His Law.

We want the good life Jesus has for us—life in His Kingdom, the Biblical worldview. But we cannot possess what is good without also resolving to pursue what is holy and just.

And whatever is holy and just and good is to be found in Jesus, as witnessed to beginning in the Law of God.

So if we want to know the good life, which we presume the Biblical worldview offers, we cannot know it apart from Jesus, and we cannot understand Jesus apart from the Law of God.

And this is why our study of the Biblical worldview must begin with Moses and God’s Law.

Act: How would you define “Biblical worldview”? That is, if you were in a conversation with someone, seeking to understand his or her basic view of life and the world, how would you explain the Biblical worldview as to be preferred, say, to secular materialism? Or Marxism? Or Islam?

Jesus came proclaiming the Kingdom of God—another primary theme of Scripture. Order a copy of The Gospel of the Kingdom from our online store, and learn how you can become more effective at proclaiming this wonderful Good News.

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).