{"id":470184,"date":"2025-02-10T02:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T20:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=470184"},"modified":"2025-02-10T02:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T20:44:14","slug":"is-your-imagination-of-god-starved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/is-your-imagination-of-god-starved\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Imagination of God Starved?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-da6ad4b34dee06689713d4278a341421\"><strong>Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. \u2014 Isaiah 40:26<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Isaiah\u2019s day, God\u2019s people had starved their imaginations by looking on the faces of idols. Isaiah told them to look to God, to the author of everything created and imagined. He made them lift their eyes to the heavens, so that they might begin to use their imaginations aright.<br>Nature to a child of God is sacramental. In every wind that blows, in every night and every day, in every sign of the sky, in every blossoming and withering of the earth, there is a real coming of God to us, if we will only use our starved imaginations to realize it. If we learn to associate ideas worthy of God with all that happens in nature\u2014with the sunrises and the sunsets, with the moon and the stars, with the changing seasons\u2014our imaginations will never be at the mercy of our impulses but will always be at his service.<br>Is your imagination looking on the face of an idol? Is the idol yourself? Your work? Your experiences of salvation and sanctification? If your imagination is God-starved, you will have no power when difficulties arise. When you need strength, don\u2019t look to your own experience or understanding; it is God you need. Go out of yourself\u2014away from your idols, away from everything that has been starving your imagination. Take Isaiah\u2019s words to heart: lift your eyes to the heavens and deliberately turn your mind to God.<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. \u2014 Isaiah 40:26 In Isaiah\u2019s day, God\u2019s people had starved their imaginations by looking on the faces of idols. Isaiah told them to look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}