27 Jun What Makes Us Most Like God?
What Makes Us Most Like God?
Part 1 of the Power of Imagination Series
Did you know that almost every instance of imagination in the Old Testament was negative, except for one time with David?
Our first encounter with the power of imagination begins with the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11), where people decided to build a tower reaching to the heavens. Or in other words, people were determined to erect their own tower to the making of their own God. It was here that God had to confuse their language so that their evil plots could not be accomplished. When we look at the children of Israel (Numbers 13), we discover that 10 of the 12 spies Moses had sent on a reconnaissance mission to the promised land had seen themselves as grasshoppers in their own eyes, so they announced to the people that they were all no doubt grasshoppers in the eyes of the inhabitants of the promised land as well.
This is the power of imagination! We can visualize positive outcomes through the eyes of our hearts, or we can choose instead to imagine negative ones. The answer lies between your two ears! Your brain is where you imagine either good things or evil things!
In the New Testament the mind takes on new possibility and new empowerment through the regenerative power of the Holy Spirit. If we will renew our minds to the possibilities that God provides through His Word, nothing shall be impossible for us!
In Mark chapter 11, the disciples were baffled when they passed by the fig tree that Jesus had cursed the day before. It was withered – dead! What an amazing object lesson for the disciples. At that moment, Jesus looked up to the mountains and gave the disciples another amazing object lesson. He said, “Have faith in God,” or as other translations state, “Have the faith of God.” He then proceeded to tell them that if you tell the mountain to go throw itself into the sea, and don’t doubt in your heart but instead believe what you say, it will happen!
What’s in your heart? Life, imagination and possibility flow out of the abundance of the heart! Yes, words have power! Yes, we have the faith of God dwelling in us! Yes, all things are possible! But— I would submit to you that the eye of imagination, or the picture you maintain in your heart of your outcome, defines the reality of your outcome!
What makes us most like God? The ability to imagine a new world for ourselves! For me, it is one where every person has the opportunity to hear the Gospel and receive His love!
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