TATTOO on the HEART

Limited imagination…

// May 26th, 2009 // OUT LOUD THOUGHTS

“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us…” Ephesians 3:20

Honestly, most of us have never seen God do anything either we haven’t imagined or could not imagine.

This says nothing about the limits of God, but the limits that we’ve constructed around Him.

We’ve often misunderstood Him I think.

I think we might pray to a different god than Him. Because the god we’re praying to is too weak to be Him.

I think we pray for smaller things because we can keep God from failing us or at the very least disappointing us.

We need our imaginations redeemed. We need them stretched. Truth be told, we need a lot of it to be razed and totally leveled .

When Jesus taught us to pray for His Kingdom to come, it had heavy implications. Because when Jesus prayed, His intimate connection was with a Father who had zero limits. And Jesus’ prayers matched the desires of the heart of the Father.

I wonder what’s in the imagination of God.
I wonder what He’s dreaming about.

When we ask God to let His Kingdom come, we’re saying whatever is going on up there is how it must be here. We’re asking God to unlock the mysteries. To make His hopes and dreams a reality right here, right now.

I wonder if we’d dare to ask God what He’s dreaming about and to allow precisely those things to be the purpose of our life.

I wonder what would happen.

Life would certainly get a lot more dangerous. We’d be a little more fearless. I think our stories be a lot more interesting. We’d constantly shake our heads in disbelief when weren’t scratching our heads. We’d laugh – you know those goofy laughs when the unexpected happens like winning the lottery.

But then again, that’s too easy to imagine. It’d be much better than that.