We continue discussing a biblical worldview today. Recall that a worldview is simply how we look at life and process life. Biblical worldview is to process life through the lens of Scripture. We saw yesterday that God reveals His truth through two different ways:
1. General or natural revelation in which He reveals certain aspects of truth through nature, creation, our conscience, and our moral nature. God has built those things in us. We find this in Psalm 19, which we will look to again today, as well as Romans 1 & 2. God does reveal certain aspects about Himself and the world in general. People can see those. The Lord’s wrath, or judgment, comes against those who suppress that truth.
2. Specific revelation. The natural truth is not enough to truly give us a really solid handle on who God is, who we are, our salvation, and many other things. So, to see those things, we must turn to the written Word of God. We will look at that today.
Our biblical worldview must come from the Scriptures itself. What does Scripture say about all of these things concerning our lives and living. We turn to Psalm 19:7 where David has just written about the natural, general revelation in Psalm 19:1-6. He now turns to the specific revelation of Scripture. He gives the Scripture various names. For instance, Psalm 19:7 says, “The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul.” The law then is one of the handles for the understanding of Scripture. He uses several of them here and so, that is what he is talking about here. I am using the Legacy Translation, and it translates the word Lord as “Yahweh,” so keep that in mind as we read through this section. Psalm 19:7 says, “restoring the soul.” He starts off by saying that the Word of God is perfect and there are no defects in it. You couldn’t add anything to make it better. It is perfect and its job is to restore the soul. That is wonderful because we are all born into this world with broken souls. We are on the wrong track, we are corrupted by sin, and the Word of God is God’s tool and means through His Holy Spirit of restoring the soul. Psalm 19:7 continues, “The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.” We have a sure Word of God so that even the simplest of people can become wise when they understand life from God’s wisdom on how to live life God’s way.
