God is moving in a powerful way. I’m excited and in awe of what He is doing. I just want to be a part of His great plan, and to help Him, serve Him and be used by Him. I know I’m so inadequate to do this on my own, and am grateful that I have Him and others in my life to best work for Him, and for His glory.
A little while ago, I mentioned in an earlier blog about imagination. God is wanting us to ‘image’ a nation. To use our imagination, the creativity that lies within each and every one of us, to create this image in our minds and hearts, a vision for the nation that He can see for mankind, for His kingdom. A nation united for His glory, for His purpose. A nation that bows down only to Him. A nation where He is king. Imagine… here’s what the dictionary says about the origin of this word…ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French imaginer, from Latin imaginare ‘form an image of, represent’ and imaginari ‘picture to oneself,’ both from imago, imagin- ‘image.’
I love that the word imagine comes from a picture of ‘oneself’- it not only means ourselves, it means ‘one-self’, that we will be of one accord, and who is self? It is of God Himself.
When we imagine, we go beyond what we can see, to places we’ve not yet been before. The time has come for us to imagine, for our imagination, our imaging of a nation- God’s imaging of this nation and all the nations- a picture of Himself: loving, trusting, gentle, forgiving, embracing, inclusive, righteous, faithful, truthful, merciful… I could go on. That is how great and mighty He wants us to imagine.
Last week I attended a seminar, where a speaker, Marcus Akuhata- Brown spoke in reference to the scripture, “Your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions” Joel 2: 28. He was talking about as a young Maori man he had made a conscious decision to stay connected with his old people, to learn as much as he could from them. He shared how it came to him, that unless the old people are dreaming dreams- it will have an impact on the young people’s ability to have vision. Their vision will be impeded by limitations on the dreams, the imagination of those who are charged with holding onto the image of a nation they were to prepare for this generation, and the generations to come.
Lord let me always continue to grow in you, and to have that picture of who You are, what You have in Your heart for Your people, this nation, for the nations. I never want my heart to grow cold, to give up on the dreams that you’ve shown me. Help me Lord to use my imagination to see your kingdom come, your will be done here as it is in heaven. Lord, from glory to glory, let your might reign over this nation, over your people, amen.
