Sunday, October 23, 2016

IMAGINATION

We have to decide if we're going to fight the good fight of faith.

We have to decide if we're going to let our minds be transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit so we can go forward together.

We have to decide if we're going to allow God to change us, not change the person we live with.

Over time the billions of sensory receptors in your imagination can begin to describe what you wish rather than what's real and they become idols that have your full attention - your full devotion - your full expectation - and you begin to serve a fantasy, because idols are something God hates.

That's why men crave porn -- because they begin to chase imaginations rather than face their God-reality.

And in nearly every case in the Bible, whenever there was idolatry, there was also fornication and perversion because idols are the result of vain imaginations.

And I know you and I don't think we're idolators -- but anytime we're committed to making someone else into who we want them to be rather than letting God do what He wants with them, we may as well stick little pins in the doll that looks like them.

God isn't looking for you to change the other person into the image of what you want; He's looking for someone who will accept the other for who they are and then pray the power of the Holy Spirit does a transformation in you first, and them second.

And be blessed.

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