“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.

Isaiah 55:8
In the sixties there were a lot of movements, looking and thinking at life in a better way. This has always gone on since civilisation of the human race began, but in many respects was epitomized in the pop culture of its time. One song Imagine by John Lennon which is today still one of the most popular songs of all time clearly describes man’s idealistic society. Lyrics such as “Imagine there's no Heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky. Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too, Imagine all the people, Living life in peace”
It all sounds wonderful, but an utopia is unachievable with mankind. You might ask, “where is my foundation for such a negative statement”, you only have to look at the Garden of God, a place where man was given a paradise of perfection, without endless boundaries, and yet in Eden, man still wanted more. Yes it would be great to imagine a world without wars, and political boundaries and with only one religion, that people followed. Isn’t this only achievable with God and not without him. If there is no hell, or heaven and no God, where does man get his help from...He doesn't’!, Without the thoughts and ways of God there is never any sense made of this sinful fallen world that we live in. There is no authority or higher law that tells us we are wrong, what is right and wrong anyway? It is what is right and wrong in our own eyes. We are all so different and struggle to make simple agreements on the most basis of subjects, can we ever expect man to decide what is right and what is not.?
Our greatest imaginations are lost with our inabilities to perceive and understand the life that we have been given. Without God to develop and grow that understanding and make sense of this life, we make up our own ideas which have failed us many times over.
Those that desire to go down the road of believing in the non existence of God, hell, sin etc, are the humanistic thinkers who believe that we will eventually evolve into higher beings. The evidence of the past 6000 years is that whatever developments or advancements of technology we have made, the understanding of life, social, spiritual and moral aspects of the human mind, have not developed in the way that was perceived. Without God, we will have to keep imagining, but sadly we will never find a way that works on our own. The good news is that with him we can reached a true “utopia”

Labels: Imagine, Thoughts, Utopia