As a man thinketh in his heart. Well, how do you think in your heart? You think in pictures. You think in pictures all the time anyway.
If I say apple, you don’t, in your mind, see A P P L E. You don’t see that. You see an apple. If you have a preference over yellow apples or red apples, you’re going to see the one you prefer. If you prefer raw apples over baked apples, you’re going to see raw apples. When I say apple, you’re going to get a picture in your understanding. You’re using your imagination all the time.
We can use our imagination for godly purposes as well. I told you that the word imagination is in the Bible multiple times, and it’s not ever used for good except one time in Chronicles.
It’s not used for good back in the Tower of Babel in Genesis. In every single time throughout the Bible where the word imagination is used, it is used negatively. In addition, the imagination produced what it saw. It still produced. Instead of positive, it produced negative. It produced evil instead of good.
So I am saying that hope is a godly imagination. Hope is using the imagination God’s already given you to see the promise that God has said. And that lays a foundation that faith will attach to and God will manifest. It will happen over and over and over again.