{"id":38827,"date":"2026-01-06T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38827"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:23:49","slug":"260107-imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260107-imagine\/","title":{"rendered":"No One Has Ever Imagined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38830 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0107_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0107_1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0107_1-1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Try this. Imagine a perfect world. Whatever that means to you, imagine it. Does that mean peace? Then envision absolute tranquility. Does a perfect world imply joy? Then create your highest happiness. Will a perfect world have love? Ponder a place where love has no bounds.\u00a0 Whatever heaven means to you, imagine it.<\/p>\n<p>Get it firmly fixed in your mind. Delight in it. Dream about it. Long for it. And then smile as the Father reminds you from the apostle Paul\u2019s words in 1 Corinthians 2:9: \u201c<strong>No one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love him<\/strong>.\u201d No one. No one has come close.<\/p>\n<p>Think of all the songs about heaven. All the artists\u2019 portrayals. All the lessons preached, poems written and chapters drafted. When it comes to describing heaven, we are all happy failures!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38829\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1-unnamed-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"When God Whispers Your Name\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=7589a23bac&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3D7589a23bac%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1767831341879000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1bggpd4t-WDfXIw02NeW_R\"><em>When God Whispers Your Name<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try this. Imagine a perfect world. Whatever that means to you, imagine it. Does that mean peace? Then envision absolute tranquility. Does a perfect world imply joy? Then create your highest happiness. Will a perfect world have love? Ponder a place where love has no bounds.\u00a0 Whatever heaven means to you, imagine it.<\/p>\n<p>Get it firmly fixed in your mind. Delight in it. Dream about it. Long for it. And then smile as the Father reminds you from the apostle Paul\u2019s words in 1 Corinthians 2:9: \u201cNo one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.\u201d No one. No one has come close.<\/p>\n<p>Think of all the songs about heaven. All the artists\u2019 portrayals. All the lessons preached, poems written and chapters drafted. When it comes to describing heaven, we are all happy failures!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38831,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38827\/revisions\/38831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}