What matters?

The world seems to be spiraling out of control.  Bush fires, drought, Covid 19, and now the Black Lives Matter protests.  We are a world unsettled and wanting.  Wanting of what?  A good dose of reality.

Why should anything matter?  If this world appeared out of nothing, from chaos to order, why should anything matter?  If this world is made up of chance particles colliding together to create sharks, roses, rocks, kangaroos, and people…why should anything matter?

Ravi Zacharias has suggested that there are 4 questions that any world view needs to answer (my paraphrase).

1. Where did we come from? (Origin)
2. Why are we here? (Meaning)
3. What are we to do? (Morality)
4. Where are we going when we die? (Destiny)

If our answers to these questions are:

1. We came from nothing.
2. We have no reason for being, we are a chance encounter of various molecules.
3. What is right for you is not necessarily right for me.
4. When we die we just cease to exist.

THEN NOTHING MATTERS!!!

Black lives don’t matter…unborn babies don’t matter…women raped, beaten, and killed in (name the country) don’t matter…cruise ships carrying Covid 19 don’t matter…

But we all know differently.  We know WE matter because we are made in the image of God and that is the only reason we matter.  It is God’s decree that in the beginning..

 “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Genesis 1:26

“It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him…Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the shall become one flesh.” Genesis 2:18,24

As followers of Christ, we say:

1. “In the beginning God created…” Genesis 1:1
2. “He has told you, O man, what is good;
       and what does the Lord require of you
   but to do justice, and to love kindness,
       and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8
3. ⁴ “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. ⁵ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ⁶ And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. ⁷ You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. ⁸ You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ⁹ You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Deut. 6:4-9
4.  “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. ² In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.” John 14:1-3

So yes, black lives matter…unborn babies matter…women matter…

We all matter because, and only because, God matters.  Now go in peace.