Daring To ImagineSample

Because you can’t see God, you have to use imagination to practice your faith. Hebrews 11 is the great chapter of heroes of the faith. In Hebrews 11 we have God’s Hall of Fame. You know there’s a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a Baseball Hall of Fame. God’s Hall of Fame lists all the people who are the real heroes in God’s book. People like Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Rahab, and Gideon stepped out in faith to confidently follow the vision God gave them. Hebrews 11 begins by defining faith as the “ confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of things we cannot yet see ” (Hebrews 11:1 NLT). Faith is a way of seeing. God says whatever you hope for — whatever you think might happen — when you believe that it will actually happen, that’s faith. It’s the evidence, or confidence, of things we cannot yet see. God gave you two ways of seeing. First, you can see through your physical eyes. And second, you can see through the imagination in your mind. You can picture things in your mind, you dream them, you visualize them. When you can’t see something physically you can imagine it in your mind. The Bible says you need to focus on the things that will last — those things that you can’t actually see with your eyes. In order to do that you have to imagine them. Imagination shapes your life and is essential to living by faith. Pray: Dear God, help me to practice my faith by using my imagination. I want my thoughts to reflect the confident assurance I have that what I hope for is going to happen. I set my eyes not on what is seen but on what is unseen. Help me in my unbelief. I choose to hope in your promises for me. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.