We live in a perfect world. You heard me right, a perfect world. One definition of perfect is “having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics.” If that is a definition of perfect, then it can be said that we live in a perfect world.
Simply stated, our world is the perfect world for achieving its desired result: what we call "heaven." What do I mean? As foreign as it might be, try to think about God’s position before the creation of our world. He was in perfect fellowship with Himself—“God is love” (1 John 4:16) is a reflection of the Trinity. Love requires more than one person—God as three Persons of one essence, while beyond our ability to fully understand, helps us to understand a little how God can exist for eternity as love.
God in His wisdom decided He wanted to share in this love relationship with other creatures. As He thought about this, He knew that the best possible world was what we call heaven—that is, a place where He would live in perfect communion with creatures who truly love Him. But this presented a quandary—to simply create such a place filled with loving creatures could not genuinely fulfill His plan. Creatures created to “love” with no real choice to do otherwise can not be said to actually “love.” True, authentic love requires a real choice to not love—it requires the choice to reject.
Enter our present world. God created our world as the best possible way to get to the best possible of worlds—heaven. The world in which we live was created to give free-will creatures a place to make and live out our choices—including the primary choice to love God and accept Jesus or to reject God and reject Jesus. This purpose is the principal reason our world exists. Our world gives people an arena to work out salvation—a place to “choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve” (Joshua 24:15).
So in this sense, our world is a perfect world. Our world has all the qualities necessary to achieve its desired result. Once this world comes to an end, God will have achieved His ultimate goal, heaven—or more accurately, a "new heaven and a new earth." Heaven—a world where all the creatures living there truly and authentically love Him. A world where free-will and choice have resulted in the perfect relationship between the Creator and His creation. A new heaven and a new earth—a place where the eternal love shared by the Trinity is expanded to include all those who have chosen to submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. A world that satisfies the ultimate desire of God.
