Worldview...

Most of the time, I hate reading/thinking/speaking about worldview. Worldview (along with diversity) is one of Trinity's catch-words that, in their zeal to impart understanding and appreciation to students, they make students despise. So I was annoyed when assigned another worldview reading for class - one that I'm pretty sure I was supposed to have read before.

But halfway through this reading, I began to realize how deeply rooted my "worldview" is - how inseparable from God I am becoming. To take away this part of me would make me cease to exist.

So many times, Satan tries to drag me down and tell me what a terrible job I am doing as a Christian - how unChristian-like I am acting. And in some respects, that's true - I can do no good on my own. And I stumble and fall and fail over and again.

But when I think about my life - even my everyday activities - God touches every decision I make; every deed I do; every person I love. He colors my life. He is slowly infusing my existence with His presence as I become more and more like Him. He and I are becoming one - an idea found in my favorite chapter of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters:

"Merely to over-ride a human will (as His felt presence in any but the faintest and most mitigated degree would certainly do) would be for Him useless. He cannot ravish. He can only woo. For His ignoble idea is to eat the cake and have it; the creatures are to be one with Him, but yet themselves; merely to cancel them, or assimilate them, will not serve."

He is relentlessly wooing me - and I cannot resist His call.