I have been trying to do away with my imaginations; not the good ones, but the bad ones. You know they are bad when they compare negatively with what you know the Bible says - - or the law of the land says for that matter. Bad imaginations are wrong because they entertain unlawfulness. They are wrong if they make predictions about people of which you have no absolute assurance.
But I wonder if good imaginations undeveloped can also be harmful? I wonder if they do not sort-circuit some good that I might do. I imagine it, therefore (in my mind) I have “done” it, therefore I do not really do it. The imagination of an action or event in some vicarious, not actual, fashion becomes a pseudo reality.
God says without vision the people perish. Some sort of thinking about what might happen is good. But I wonder if some of my imagining takes away from the positive action. Certainly the negative imaging is not good for it sets an evil cast upon events which have not yet happened; or sets an evil cast on happening events that are not evil. Sometimes it puts future events in the framework of the way we are familiar with events happening, but things don’t always happen the same way.
We need to be aware of how our imagination is guiding us.
