God gave us the ability to imagine, to think within ourselves "what if." Our forefathers imagined "what if we had freedom of religion" and it caused them to set out for a new land. Martin Luther King imagined a day "when his four children would live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character" and he set forth a movement that would change this nation, as well as the lives his children would have lived, had he not imagined.
Our imaginations were given to us to build, and do great things; to see ourselves going forward and winning; to imagine ourselves free, healthy & whole. However, so many times our imaginations work against us. Imagining how things will never change, never work, never happen for us. Imagining the worst outcome. That negative imagination has ownership of our minds and holds our lives in it's grip.
What if you began to imagine the good, the possible, or the impossible could happen? What if you began to take action toward it? Not seeing, yet believing. Life changing faith.
The definition of imagine is "a mental image of something that is not present, that is not the case."
Just as our forefathers stepped toward a land that wasn't yet a reality and M. L.King stepped toward
equality when all he could see was racism, the things they imagined eventually became a reality.
Heb 11:1 "Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not yet seen"
Faith causes action. However, at the same time, your imagination reveals your faith. What do you truly believe? "God is able" or "I'm never going to make it, things are never going to change".
Take control of your thinking and be determined to make it line up with what God's word says about your life. Let faith lead your imagination and see the turn around it causes, the lives it changes, if only your own and those around you.
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