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Utopia
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In a perfect world, we would all have a belief in the one true God. Each of us would be in a relationship with that God, in which He is our Father and we are His children. That relationship would be secure because each of us would have become the beneficiary of the sacrificial and redeeming death of His Son. The choice to become a beneficiary would have been ours, but by the grace of God and His gift of faith to us on an individual basis, we each individually would have made that choice.
The Father-child relationship has a spiritual reality that unifies the Father and the child. We are in our God, and our God is in us. The essence of our God is both holiness and love. Holiness embodies a perfected love. It is the expression of a perfected love. Jesus taught that all the commandments could be succinctly stated in just two commandments. The first commandment that summarizes in part all the others is to love God with all of our heart, soul, and mind. The second is to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Jesus then added that all the things that pertain to holiness could be included as subheadings under these two.
It was God’s love for me that initiated His grace and gift of faith in my life. Because God is in me as a believer, His essence of love and holiness dwell within me as well. In a perfect world, every believer would know the perfecting work of God to such a degree that our ability to love would be perfected. I would be able to perfectly love God, and to perfectly love others. But because I would be living in a perfect world, all of my relationships would be mutual exchanges of perfected love. Not only would holiness be fully lived out, but fear would become extinct. I would be able to approach both God and man without any hint of fear. It cannot survive in an atmosphere of mutual exchanges of perfected love.
Utopia. A perfect world. A Biblical ideal to strive for. We will not, however, see that ideal fulfilled in our present sin-corrupted world. We can though, reach for it, and by the grace of God, experience a better world until we enter into the glorious perfection of eternity.
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