Lesson 4, October 17-23
Sabbath Afternoon
Memory Text: “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, Beholding the evil and the good.” Proverbs 15:3
Read for This Week’s Study: Proverbs 15:3; Job 12:7-10; Ephesians 6:12; Revelation 20:5, 6; John 1:1-14; Mark 12:29-31.
Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz wrote a poem, which began with his writing about imaginary animals: talking rabbits, talking squirrels, and the like. They “have as much in common with real animals,” he wrote, “as our notions of the world have with the real world.” Then, to end the poem, he wrote: “Think of this, and tremble.”
“Tremble” might be too harsh a word, but it is true that indeed, so much of what humans think about the world could be completely wrong. For example, for almost 2,000 years many of the world’s smartest and best-educated people thought the earth sat immobile in the center of the universe. Today, many of the smartest and best-educated people think that humans evolved from what was originally a simple life form.
As human beings, we never look at the world from a neutral position. We see it, always and only, through filters that impact how we interpret and understand the world around us. That filter is called a worldview, and it’s so crucial that we teach our young people, and even older church members, the biblical worldview.
