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"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.
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.
(From Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest)
Labels: For the spirit, Musings
posted by Joel Chan @ 12:45 PM
1 Comments:
Amen. I'm doing that devotional for this year too :)
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