Q & A by Ps Michael Podhaczky

Who am I? Where am I? What’s wrong with the world? What is the remedy? These and questions like them require answers. We may never be able to answer all of them, but most people try at some point in their life. The answers that we get will often be determined by our individual world views. A worldview is a framework or perspective through which we make sense of the world your find around yourself. For example, we say to look at life through rose-coloured glasses will mean that all will be fine. Your worldview affects everything you do whether you realise it or not. 

How would you answer the above questions? Where would you look for your answers? For example, have you ever asked “Who am I?” Are you trying to discover your character, task and purpose in life? The striving for identity is seen world-wide. The desire for acceptance simply for who I am is in all of us. What about the question “Where am I?” We seek to figure out what sort of world and universe we live in. What's wrong with the world? Many try to find complete fulfillment here, but it can be illusive. Just look around, there so much war, poverty, sickness, greed, corruption and innocent people getting hurt. So, what’s the remedy? How can these things be overcome, or can they ever be overcome? How can you overcome them in your life? How can you make a difference in the world in which you live?

What we trust in the deepest sense shapes our world view. The Biblical world view is like a rope woven of three strands: creation, the fall of humanity into sin and the buying back of humanity out of sin, through the death of Jesus Christ (i.e. redemption). As a Christ-follower are you able to turn to the Bible and see answers for yourself? One place you could look is at the life of Jesus Christ as found in the Gospels. Why not see if the answers that He offers are more helpful than your present source? What have you got to lose, except some time? You may actually gain much more than you anticipated.

“Jesus told him (Thomas), ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through Me’” (Jn 14:6 NLT).

Is that the case; that He is the way, the truth, and the life for you and your life? Really, when push comes to shove, is He? Is Jesus really the ‘A’ to your ‘Q’?