One’s view of what God is doing, what he’s “up to” in this world has an enormous impact on every aspect of life.

Imagine you believed that there was a god of some sort, and he/she/it, after making this world had long since lost interest and moved on. I suppose you would view yourself has having little to do with the one who made you. Something like parental abandonment, you might become ambivalent or embittered at such a god and take matters of life into your own hands, according to what you deem best in this universe.

Such a belief would also effect your relationships with people in profound ways. If this god was out of the picture, then life is ultimately a sort of no-holds-barred contest. To each their own. You have no ties to maker or man. Your choices about how to treat people are ultimately as valid as any other, no matter the outcome.

That’s not a very far fetched example. It’s how many people live life. I know it’s how I lived life from the time I was 18 until about age 24. Those were dark and desperate years filled with revelry, song, and despair.

Lately I’ve been thinking again through how the Bible most clearly answers the question:

What is is that God is really up to in this world?