Bernie Rabik: The gift of imagination
Any focus on imagination should include the lyrics of John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world. . . You. . .
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one.
One of the greatest gifts which God has given you is the gift of imagination. It’s the ability to see things, to think and to create with mental pictures in your mind.
The reason you have this gift is because God imagines. The Bible tells us that God imagined the entire universe, and it was created. He thought it up before it became reality. The Bible says that God has imagined all of history. He’s already seen it all happen even before it’s happened, because he thought it up. He imagined it in advance. The Bible calls that God’s foreknowledge.
You are being most like your Creator when you are being creative. Does that make sense. You are most like your Creator, God, when you are being creative. And God gave you the ability to create with your imagination. When you use your imagination for good and for God, God smiles.
Everything starts with imagination. Northing becomes reality unless somebody thinks of it. Every great business, every great company, every piece of art, every musical note all have one thing in common: somebody imagined it before it became reality. Nothing happens unless somebody imagines it.
And without imagination you couldn’t make decisions. When you start to make a decision, you imagine what would happen if you did this? Or what would happen if you did that? And then you make the decision.
Everything which has been created on earth by human beings started in the imagination of somebody’s mind. This is a gift from God.
In the end, imagination is the act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality.
God, thank you for the gift of imagination. Help me to fix my thoughts on what is true, lovely and admirable. I do not want to misuse my imagination with worry or fear. Instead, I want to focus my mind on things that are excellent and worthy of praise.
Everything which has been created on Earth by human beings started in the imagination of somebody’s mind.
The above-mentioned lyrics of John Lennon deserve repeating:
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world. . . You. . .
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one.
This article originally appeared on Beaver County Times: Rabik: The gift of imagination
