We are only limited as far as we can dream. But can only dream as far as we can imagine. And can only imagine as far as we can escape reality. For what the eye sees, the brain can imagine. But what the brain imagines, conjures what the eye sees. What if there is more than what the eye can see? And what if the eye can only see as far as our surroundings?
When ruled by the eye, we live controlled by a system – one designed to keep us in the system, in a state of dependency. One where the thought of expanding never crosses our mind, and the thought of living a life that is more than paycheck to paycheck, an alien concept. A system where we are only fed enough to sustain us and keep us coming back and building empires for others, while our foundations remain impoverished.
In the system, our palates are watered down to accept what is before us. But what if there is more? What if the size of our imagination determines the size of our palate and the size of our palate, the extent of our hunger for more? When we lack imagination, even when there is more, we remain chained in the shackles of our mind and continue to create only what has been rationalised in the past. Take for instance the Israelites, they were used to depending on the Egyptian system and rationalised food. So, when God provided manna for them and told them to take as much as they needed, we are told that some gathered much, but there were those that still gathered only a little (Exodus 16:16–17).
How can we hunger for more when all our lives we have been told that what is before us is all there is to gather? How can we imagine when we have never truly seen? But what if there is one in whose image we are made? One in whom all creative power lies and is the intelligent design and creative source that can cause us to dream and create far beyond our wildest imagination? Of Him who says our eyes have not seen, our ears not heard, nor any human mind conceived, the things which He has in store for those who love Him (1 Corinthians 2:9).
If we remove God from the box which we have encased Him in, we will find that there is more to be had. The creative source can do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to His power that is a work within us (Ephesians 3:20–21). At the heart of the creative source’s plans for our lives, is such that we would become lenders, not borrowers, the head, not the tail; always the top dog and never the bottom dog (Deuteronomy 28:1 –13). What if there is more to be had, and the amount to be had simply dependant on the size of our imagination and our creative source? We all want more, but are we hungry enough, motivated enough, to dare to dream, imagine and hunt like a starving lion?
God’s desire for our lives is that we would increase our imagination and stretch wide without holding back (Isaiah 54:2–3). There is more to be had than that which we have seen and that which has already been done. When the Israelites saw the manna for the first time, they said: “What is it?” For they did not know what it was [they had not seen it before]” (Exodus 16:15). The Israelites might have thought that manna was the best that God had for them, but after the crossing of the Jordan river and the Passover, God had them eat something which they had not eaten before (Exodus 5:11– 2).
There is more to be had for those that are hungry for more and desperate for a change. There is more to be had for those who dare to dream bigger and wider than their eyes have seen or their minds have yet imagined. There is more to be had for those who believe in the bounty of God’s promises.
©Katie Mliswa and MomentsbyKatie.M, 2018.
