Heaven And Imagination

Christ tells us in Matthew 19:14: "Suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me for such is the Kingdom of Heaven." "Suffer little children....for such is the Kingdom Of Heaven." The word suffer can mean permit or allow. When we read what Jesus says in Matthew 18:3: "....Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.", we can find a meaning for suffer in the context of another definition that parallels these scriptures.

Undergo, experience, or be subjected to; undergo the action, process of "little children...for" of the kind that, of a particular kind, of the same kind or degree "is the Kingdom of Heaven."

The most obvious attribute of little children is their innocence. And within that innocence is the most wonderful, incredible imagination conceivable. Howie Mandel's children's cartoon Bobby's World is a perfect depiction of a child's imagination. Acceptance is another attribute of a child. Our ability to accept must also improve greatly if we are to ascend spiritually. Innocence and acceptance are virtues that are left when we cleanse our consciousness from dwelling in negative thought. Negative thought contains, exclusively, all of our guilt. There is no guilt is our positive thoughts, unless of course, one is experiencing positive emotions over something negative such as a robbery gone well. I am referring to pure positive thought. With acceptance we can allow God to run the universe while our ego dies. Our need to control things is in direct proportion to the lack of faith and trust in God's ability to provide. Stress is a product of needing to control. When we need to have control we become angry, anxious, and stressful when things do not go as we planned. Acceptance is the soother of life. Acceptance is a fundamental for staying positive in thought.

Christ then said in Matthew 13:11-17: ".... it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, BY HEARING YE SHALL HEAR, AND SHALL NOT UNDERSTAND; AND SEEING YE SHALL SEE, AND SHALL NOR PERCEIVE: FOR THIS PEOPLE'S HEART IS WAXED GROSS, AND THEIR EARS ARE DULL OF HEARING, AND THEIR EYES THEY HAVE CLOSED; LEST AT ANY TIME THEY SHOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES, AND HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND SHOULD UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART, AND SHOULD BE CONVERTED, AND I SHOULD HEAL THEM. But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them."

Christ referred to the prophecy which stated that they may see and not perceive and hearing they may not hear and understand. And to the twelve that were with him and understood he said "...unto you it is given to know the mystery of the Kingdom Of God." What did the twelve apostles have that the average person doesn't have? Divine, positive emotion and imagination, acceptance to the will of God through faith, an understanding of the brotherhood of mankind, and a concept of being the sons of the Father in heaven.

Christ never used the word imagination. He gave us Matthew 19:14 and 18:3. These scriptures tell us to become as children where we gain the power of using our divine, innocent imaginations with acceptance, to enter the kingdom of heaven.