Part A: World View Essay
When I first began hearing about a worldview, I wondered, “What does that mean?” I may have given a definition based on context, yet, I really couldn’t provide a strong meaning of the word. This was due to the chaos that my world was in. Although I was saved, I had no idea what it meant to be a child of the King. Since then, the Lord has given me a better understanding of the word, worldview. I’m so thankful because the more I reflect on what I’ve learned; the more excited I get about the plans God has for me now that I have a better understanding of who I am in Him. It’s this understanding about who I am in Christ that grounds and influences all my perceiving, thinking, knowing, and doing both inside the educational field I am sent to harvest and without.
I believe that I am created by God, and not only that, but that He designed me in a very special and unique way to fulfill a very special and unique roll on this earth. My life has meaning. “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 Not only am I unique and have a special purpose, but God even thought of me before He even made the earth. “He chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.” Ephesians 1:4
My purpose is to have a special relationship with God. He planned for that relationship even before the moment of my conception. He knew me from the beginning. He knew my strengths and my weaknesses and He wanted a relationship with me. “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” Psalms 13-16 I am extremely rare, and special.
God also has a very great plan for my career. What I do with my time, my days, and my life matters to Him. I didn’t make up my own destiny; I didn’t determine my life’s plan. If I did, I would live in mediocrity. Yet, if I seek God with all my heart, He will reveal and lead me into His plan for my life. It will be a plan that will prosper me. I will be prosperous in the ways that really count, in the ways God says are important. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord” Jeremiah 29:11-13.
Furthermore, as a child of the King, I am unconditionally loved, totally accepted, and completely forgiven. I may falter at times in doing what pleases my Father. I may accidentally bring Him distress. Sometimes I may even purposefully throw a tantrum to have my own way and cause Him sorrow. Nonetheless, my Father will still love me and will forgive me when I confess my sin to him. “If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.” I John 1:9 BIBE “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more” Hebrews 8:12.
Being confident of God’s acceptance and love, I am told to “draw near to the Father with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith.” Hebrews 10:22, NIV. Nothing can make Jesus stop loving me. “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? It is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us”. Romans 8: 35-37
I am a Christian, and my worldview is a Biblical Christian worldview. My worldview begins with the truth I know about myself and extends to the students I serve. My life has purpose and just as I am here for a specific reason, my students are here for a purpose! My highest calling is to make that truth known to them. When they enter my school or classroom, it is so important that I make it known that they are valuable, significant and important because God has designed them in His image. I may not be able to legally verbalize my worldview to my students but my life and my attitude towards my students should demonstrate my beliefs. One of my favorite passages from the Bible is John 1:1-9. I have taken the liberty to re-write this passage in a manner that would be understood by all educators.
“In the beginning was the Curriculum, and the Curriculum was with God, and the Curriculum was God. He was with God during the unit planning time.
Through Him all standards of learning were made; without him no standard can be passed that has been made. In him was accreditation, and that accreditation was the determination that every child is reached everyday. Instruction was presented in the classroom, but the classroom has not understood the instruction.
There came a teacher who was sent from God; her name was Melanie. She came as a witness to testify concerning that Curriculum, so that through Him no child is left behind. She herself was not the Curriculum; she came only as one who had learned the Curriculum, the true Curriculum that gives achievement to every student coming into the world which God uses as His classroom.”
