As a man thinketh, so is
he. The power of imagination. The power of the thought, so magnanimous yet most
misunderstood.
I love adventure as I
earlier stated. A life that is obvious lacks creativity; its dull and scarce of
spontaneity and definitely not worthy of the life Christ came to give us.
As a man thinketh so is
he, and it all began in that Garden of Eden that the craftiest serpent would
seduce the first couple to imagine that they would become like God. How on this
earth could this imagination register in their faculties; that they could
become like God apart from God? Weren’t they created in his own image and
likeness and as by consequence bearing the likeness of God?
The tragedy is that man
tries so hard to find satisfaction and arrive at this destination called
fullness by his own strength which is an abuse of the integrity of image and
likeness already imprinted in man. Take it this way. When we say we are the
righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, we are endowed with fullness of God. We
are made holy, sanctified by a once and for all sacrifice of Christ (heb
10:10-14), the immediate faculty of our imagination is to delve into works. We
immediately append such statements with statements like how s possible? I have
not prayed enough, I have not escaped sin enough, am still in this body.
Why is it easy to accept
and imagine with the full extent of our imagination that we are all sinners and
we fail to grasp as rom 3:23 says that all who have sinned are justified freely
through the redemption that is found in Christ. Isn’t it the same lie that
propels us to think and imagine ourselves outside of the confines of Christ and
his redemption?
Imagine this; that Adam
was full capacitated to life by the breath of God, the extent of his imagination
(God given) empowered him to name all creation without the help of God, unless it’s
stated in the bible. I try to imagine the rationality that was operating in his
system at that time, thinking like God after the image of his creator.
It’s the most Holy thing
to imagine yourself as God imagines and knows you.
Imagine that God feasts in
the thought; the summary and the conclusion of your redemption. He is so much
at home at the conclusion that you are fully forgiven not according to your
capacity to imagine you can confess all your sins but according to the capacity
and the measure of Christ. Even sorrow for sin is overshadowed by a breath taking
recovery we have in Christ’s full redemption from fallenness and sin
Yet Adam is a prototype for the scripture
speaks of two sets of Adam. The first Adam and the last Adam Christ. The effect
of the fall was powerful; one man disobeyed and sin and death spread to all.
You can imagine how in the order of Adam it was effortless to imagine of sin.
Sin was effortless to man. No one needed to go to a special school of sin. The
nature of sin was embedded into man, so much did man imagine the full extent of
sinning that he would construct a tower to reach God. You probably know of that
story of that tower of babel. Am filled with awe of the spectacle of
imagination behind these folks, yet this was under the fall.
how much can our imagination catapult us to? when we realize our inclusion in Christ, find out more in part 2
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