Imagine a World Where You Didn't Encounter Deception but Only God's Truth

First, I believe this will ultimately be the case (my irrational optimism is undeniable as a result of my post-millenial and calvinistic convictions). Second, I am vividly aware of how far off we are, due to the corrupted cosmos we find ourselves in...my own sin nature reminds me of this too often.

But for just a moment think about the eradication of confusion, chaos, and relative truth claims. Harmony and order and goodness and beauty and truth would be the themes of every day and all of life.

It seems to me, that parents and leaders are content with mere reaction to absurdities, chaos, relativity, and subjective illogical platitudes, instead of casting a strong vision of hope through consistency in laying out what is true, good, beautiful, orderly, and harmonious in and through God.

This is what is slowly growing from something small like a mustard seed into something with branches that birds can perch on. God's Kingdom, which is a Kingdom filled completely with truth, goodness, and beauty, is the yeast that is slowly permeating the loaf that is the people on earth and the earth itself. Jesus spoke this parable to not only give hope, but to recognize the slow-filling of the gospel in all the world.

"“You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening. The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth."

Daniel 2:31-35

We cannot keep using the cultural and worldly language, mathematics, logic, and metrics, and expect to understand God's truth, goodness, and beauty. We must use the language, math, logic, and measurements of God, to see clearly what was once dark to us. Let not your sin and fallen nature control you, but submit it to Christ in His death and resurrection, so you too may live eternally with Christ as His adopted sons and daughters.