I have been trying to do away with my unfruitful imaginations. I wonder if they do not short-circuit some good that I might do. It might proceed this way: I imagine it; therefore I have "done" it; therefore I do not really do it.
God says without vision the people perish. Some sort of thinking about what will happen is good, but I wonder if some of my imagining takes away from positive action. Certainly, negative imagining is not good, or it sets an evil cast upon events which have not happened. I think "Men do not want me around" and I launch my imagination off in that direction and exclude myself from fellowship. I need to say, "I resist that thinking; God said, ‘reject the devil and he will flee from you, draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you’; In the name of Jesus I resist that thought".
Other times it puts future events in the framework of the way we are used to events happening, They may not happen that way and we become disillusioned or disappointed.
Maybe my mind, being so full of imaginations, keeps me from hearing the spirit of God. I need to walk "by faith and not by sight". While I am doing what faith says (what the Bible says) I can observe the results of faith.
What would faith teach me about my relationships with other men? It is important to know that what God says is right, is right. We can see this in the law, psalms, proverbs, parables Gospels - - throughout the whole Bible. We see this in good examples, as in the life of Jesus and Paul, and in bad examples as with Jezebel and Ahab.
