What Lennon Forgot

Picking up from the previous post, the one variable John Lennon left out in his imagined utopia was human nature.  We all have egos which are driven by self-interest.  Those things are not necessarily bad.  Our self-interest is what leads us to prepare for the future, take care of our health and where we can, avoid dangerous situations.  But it is also the source of envy, greed, jealousy and selfishness.  Those are part of the mental makeup imprinted in our DNA.  It is not the environment. We’re born this way.  It’s something every parent observes in their children.  Babies exhibit those behaviors right from birth.  Thankfully they are cute and lack the language skills that would otherwise make them unbearable. 
 
Before you take offense at that know that I am a parent & grandparent who loves his sons and grandchildren.  I also know they inherited those less desirable character traits from me and their grandmother.  Which is why I pray for them and have told them about Jesus Christ.  God’s intention from the beginning was to create a world that would exceed all that John Lennon had imagined.  He laid out that plan in Genesis 1:26-28.  He will achieve that goal in the New Heaven and Earth mentioned in Isaiah 65:17 ff and Revelation 21 & 22.  Everyone who has the everlasting life Jesus Christ died to provide for us will enter that world.
 
The reason Jesus Christ had to do that is because God created the Human race with the freedom to make choices, a free will.  He knew the risks but realized the benefits were far better than the negatives.  Still, He took responsibility for allowing us to make bad choices by sending His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our wrong choices.  What the Bible calls sin.  From the very beginning He promised a redeemer who would make things right again.  He also warned of the consequences of refusing His offer of everlasting life.  Anyone reading this blog has no excuse for missing out on being in the new world that’s coming. 
 
Here is what Jesus Christ promised in John 11:25 & 26 “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
 
He is the resurrection!  People do die physically but those who have believed in Jesus Christ for everlasting life will experience resurrection and live in a new body.  He is the everlasting life so the one who has believed Him never actually ceases to exist.  They will live on fully aware of who and where they are.  It really is in your best interest to check this out.  You can read the Bible for yourself.  I suggest starting with the Gospel of John.  And you can talk to someone like me who has already believed and received everlasting life.  
 
Eternity lasts forever.  Where do you want to spend it?