Inwardly, I knew the importance of my relationship with God. I felt I had no value or worth without my job. No one from work called to ask about the tasks I had planned to complete. Once I got home, tears streamed down my face. He handed me an envelope with a severance package to review, told me to collect my belongings, and sent me home. He thanked me for my work and proceeded to say the organization had restructured and eliminated my position. Curious, I strode into his office and sat. It should also lead us to stand in daily appreciation to our loving heavenly Father. His forgetting our sins should prompt us to love others and to do good for them as God has done for us. Instead, he loves us and has accepted us into His family, with all the fringe benefits. We no longer fear God’s condemnation when we stand in this wonderful position. If He didn’t choose to forget, He couldn’t clothe us this way. But because of what His Son accomplished on Calvary’s cross, God can clothe us in Christ’s righteousness when we come to Him for forgiveness. That would bring His punishment-presently and eternally. If He didn’t, He would still hold us accountable. God wiping our sin slate clean bears importance. For others, it might be busyness or brain damage.
The best I can say is He chooses to forget. How God can forget when the Bible pictures Him as omniscient (all-knowing), I don’t understand, nor can I explain. And according to Jeremiah, He will when I ask Him to forgive me. While most things I don’t want to forget, some things I do want God to forget-my sins, in particular. If they want to know something, they Google it.
They struggle to memorize-or don’t even try-because they don’t have to. The rapid advance of technology, which makes knowledge available at our fingertips, has shortened the short-term capabilities of our younger generation. I discovered why they couldn’t seem to retain anything. While attending a training conference for teachers, I took a class on technology, since I teach middle schoolers. I also discovered that age isn’t the only thing that affects memory. Now, as I age, I exercise my mind, hoping my memory will hang around a little longer. In my late thirties, people’s names started to escape me. Even in my twenties, I sailed through one college class that required tons of memorizing, earning an A with ease. When I was young, I had no trouble memorizing-anything, or a lot of things. (For more devotions, visit Christian Devotions.) When we read Scripture and enter into a scene portrayed by a writer, we imagine in our mind the meaning and then realize it spiritually. The imagination visualizes all that’s said in the Scriptures so that by faith we can embrace it. With the aid of Scripture, they can be imagined now, but one or the other will become a reality for us one day, based on what we’ve done with Jesus Christ.įor our imagination to serve us well, it must be set apart for godly purposes. Heaven and hell are real places and a reality for untold numbers. When we construct a fairyland with grotesque, absurd, and extravagant characteristics which cannot co-exist with the law and order of the universe, we enter the region of fantasy. Creation is the reality created by God-the one great spiritual reality. We perceive reality through our senses, but when reality does not satisfy us, we visualize the utopia we prefer and live there while denying reality. Whether modern inventions or the ancient idols of Israel, they were all first imagined in the mind before they were formed with the hands.Īlternate realities are created with the imagination. Things are first created in the imagination before they’re created with the hands.
We can use it to better ourselves and others, or we can use it for evil and bring our demise. There’s nothing wrong with having an imagination, but how we use it is what matters. Imagination is a power of the mind given by God.
The wrong use of the imagination by Israel, like those in Noah’s day, led them into sin and brought God’s judgment. The word is used in the book of Jeremiah more than any other book of the Bible to refer to an evil heart. Imagination is defined as “the picturing process of the mind.” Imagination reconstructs our past experiences for us to remember them. The imagination is a mental power used to embrace the truth or create a lie.
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