Eschatological Imagination—Dreaming with God

When we are faced with dilemmas we can judge them on the basis of imagination. Some solutions are imaginative and worth failing if only to have tried. Some simply lack imagination, giving up on any dream of the world as it should be and showing themselves to be compromising with cynicism. With eschatological imagination we have the freedom to reject all solutions which bow to compromise, which accept some suffering, and which fall short of God's kingdom.
Once you begin to dream with God of a world without borders, wars, discrimination, oppression, and all the other things which really don't belong here in the first place, you begin to hope with God for that same kind of world. Dreams may not be easy. It may be much easier to fall into cynicism and simply accept things as they are, giving up on any vision of the world as it should be. When we cease to dream of the world as it should be we forfeit our imagination to sin and death. A Christian is someone who dreams with God.
"Having dreams is what makes life tolerable" _Pete from the movie "Rudy"
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