I really LOVE today's "My Utmmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers! We all have been around people who are so caught up in something that they don't even see what's happening right in front of them, and they miss out on so much! THIS is what is being discussed here today!
Is Your Imagination Of God Starved?
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these
things. — Isaiah 40:26
The people of God in Isaiah’s day had starved their
imagination by looking on the face of idols, and Isaiah made them look up at
the heavens; that is, he made them begin to use their imagination aright.
Nature to a saint is sacramental. If we are children of God, we have a
tremendous treasure in Nature. In every wind that blows, in every night and day
of the year, in every sign of the sky, in every blossoming and in every
withering of the earth, there is a real coming of God to us if we will simply
use our starved imagination to realize it.
The test of spiritual concentration is bringing the
imagination into captivity. Is your imagination looking on the face of an idol?
Is the idol yourself? Your work? Your conception of what a worker should be?
Your experience of salvation and sanctification? Then your imagination of God
is starved, and when you are up against difficulties you have no power, you can
only endure in darkness. If your imagination is starved, do not look back to
your own experience; it is God Whom you need. Go right out of yourself, away
from the face of your idols, away from everything that has been starving your
imagination. Rouse yourself, take the gibe that Isaiah gave the people, and
deliberately turn your imagination to God.
One of the reasons of stultification (having a dulling, inhibiting or emptying effect) in prayer is that there
is no imagination, no power of putting ourselves deliberately before God. We
have to learn how to be broken bread and poured-out wine on the line of
intercession more than on the line of personal contact. Imagination is the
power God gives a saint to posit himself out of himself into relationships he
never was in.
Let's STOP being so busy with worldly 'busyness' and begin to really press in to the presence of God! Wisdom is found there! Guidance is found there! Hope is found there! Love is found there! PAY ATTENTION! LOOK UP! BE AWARE! Don't miss getting in on what God is doing right now because you are too focused on things that have no eternal worth or value! Let's be about our Father's business! HIS is much more exciting! Here is Hillsong Worship with "See The Light":
Shalom in Him!
