Our Imagination towards God

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worth for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:17-18

Here God is saying our affliction is for a moment or temporary.  The word of God also says our affliction is light or small.  For whom the affliction is for a moment or it’s very small?  It is for those who look the things that not seen.  What is the things that not seen?  It’s our imagination.

Imagination is the one that we not seen by our physical eyes but we are seeing through imagination.  When God created man, He makes man with imagination.  But God surely had a reason to make mankind with an imagination.  Faith is the one we imagine that we can’t see it.  Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.(Heb 11:1)  We are not seen the things that we hope.  But through imagination we are seeing as a vision.  You only can see the imagination as a vision but others can’t see it.  

God says to Abraham, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.  Abraham answered Lord what good will your rewards do me, since I have no children?   And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?    And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.    And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, this shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.    And he brought him forth abroad, and said, look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, so shall thy seed be.   And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. (Gen 15:2-6)  Here Abraham looked un to things not seen.    When God promised Abraham that his generation likes the starts that can’t count, he did not see the starts as a stars.  Abraham starts to imagine and look at the stars like his children and his descendants.  With faith he saw the things that not seen.  Because of this the Lord counted it to him for righteousness.

What are the things we imagine today?    Things which are seen or things which are not seen.  We see the things that are seen and we have hope in it.  Christianity is a life walked with faith not with sight.  Take what God has said in His word, and imagine it that way in our life.  We will see the word of God and your faith will overcome.  We must cast down imaginations that do not agree with God's Word.  (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)    Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ ;( 2Cor 10:4-5) Imagination is part of faith, so we will imagine in agreement with God's word.  Then we will see our affliction is for a movement and very small to us. 

May god bless you all.