The Imagination

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The imagination is what I call the table turner for the soul. It's the one most important thing in our soul(mind, will, and emotions). We have an ongoing video loop playing on the inside all the time. The things we are imagining can cause physical changes in our body. For example, something we imagine can cause our heart rate and blood pressure to increase.

The imagination is neutral, it can be used for good or evil. In our imagination we can play out worst case scenarios, and build false stories in our head, or we can use it to dream and plan with God. I believe the imagination is one of the most powerful ways to reprogram ourselves when our buttons get pushed in life and we respond in a way that is not the most beautiful and graceful. Most of the time when we respond in an ungraceful way there was an underlying imagination that wasn't good. 

In today's communion we are thanking God for the gift of our imagination and we are asking for His help to use our imagination the way he designed it to function. Taking communion is also one of the most powerful ways to reprogram our imagination. It is an opportunity to pull the sacrifice of Jesus into our imagination and visualize all that he went through. But, it is also important to visualize the other side of the cross and who he has now made us to be because of his sacrifice. To imagine both sides of this. 

Today's Workout/Health Tip

The imagination plays a big role in our health and fitness. Through the years in the gym, I would see people all the time whose imagination was derailing them with their health and fitness goals. People would have imaginations about themselves and what was possible for them. They would envision worst case scenarios for their health, declining as they got older, and all kinds of other things. Let's take a little time this week to examine what we are imagining about our health and ask God for his help to turn around any imaginations that are going in the wrong direction. 

I am praying for you. 

Daniel

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