What ever happened to Utopia? Utopia is that idea embraced by so many who believed in the hope of achieving a perfect society. Ironically, Utopia was thought to be achievable through social evolution or social revolution. Today liberals, communists and Christians will agree that society has still not made it to Utopia, as if it were a place on a map.
Yesterday is certainly not today. Today is rooted in the ideas of aestheticism. According to J.I. Packer, aestheticism is "the policy of enlarging individual experience, maximizing sensation and tasting as many different activities and feelings as you can, in the belief that this is the way to happiness." And, I, the Christian, have found that I am everything I desire not to be. We disguise our own path with many of our own colors; ultimately, it is about us is it not? As Donald Miller has written, "we are addicted to ourselves."
As I get up each morning, I must recognize that I am in search of my own Utopia, and I search as if it is an actual place on a map. What I have realized is that uptopia, for me, is walking in step with my Savior. It is not a place or a town, but instead, it is growing in Christ and dying to my self daily.
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