Monday, October 12, 2009

Imagination

We are created in the image of God – that is clear in the Scriptures. I believe that the area where we are the most like Him is in our imaginations. We are, after all, very much the imaginings of God. “All things are held together by word of His power,” or, in more modern terms, all creation is held together by His power through His Word. God imagined us then spoke us into existence. Our very existence depends upon His continuing to will it so.

The Bible teaches us that when man fell, evil (sin) entered into the world and death through sin. At one point, in the time of Noah, all the imagination of almost all the world was continually towards evil.

As Christians, I believe we are most like God in his creativity when we use our imaginations. Unfortunately, we are fallen creatures, though redeemed by the precious blood of Christ. He could have created a world that remained perfect, where there was no sin, where there was no pain, but to have done that would have been to create a world where man had no choices to make. All mankind would have been nothing more than automatons, with no choice but to praise and worship God at all times. But, he chose to allow Adam a choice and, through Adam, all of us to have a choice. We chose evil. Yet, through the blood of His sinless Son, He provided a way of salvation for us. Those that choose to accept Christ as Lord, turning to Him for eternal redemption, will live forever in His presence.

God has not, nor will He ever, turn us into beings that have no choice in our worship. He will, however, someday eradicate sin forever, purging it from our persons and from all of creation. He will make all things new and perfect. I believe that we will still possess our imaginations and that for all eternity we will explore the wonders and majesty of our Heavenly High King, using our imaginations, which will be real and rooted in the power of God Almighty. I believe we will explore worlds, nay, universes of the imagination, which will then be far more real than this poor existence is today. Until then, we have our imaginations as sources of escape from the sin that besets us moment by moment.

We must use our imaginations to serve God, not some rote ecclesiastical forms that bind us to vain repetition. When we use our imaginations in a pure, free manner, discarding the chains of sin and debauchery, we glorify and worship God in a very real, high and holy manner, pleasing to our King. God gave us our imaginations, why would He not want us to use them to glorify Him?

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