{"id":10441,"date":"2024-01-22T01:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10441"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","slug":"imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10441","title":{"rendered":"IMAGINATION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You and I tend to believe that we have a pretty good grip on reality.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reality is for grown-ups. Imagination is for children.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But even as adults, we don&#8217;t actually live in reality.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We live in our imaginations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think we don&#8217;t notice it because our imaginations have grown blander, flatter, and &#8211; too often &#8211; more cynical.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our imaginations fill in all the missing information of the present moment:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Her motivation for saying what she said.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>His reasoning behind doing what he did.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>And all the horrors which the future might hold!<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We &#8220;know&#8221; it all &#8211; but we seldom recognize how much of what we &#8220;know&#8221; is merely our imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This matters when it comes to faith. How many of the things we &#8220;know&#8221; about God&#8217;s character, His motivation, and His probable future actions are the product of our imaginations?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lot.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The question becomes how closely our imaginations resemble what Scripture reveals of God and His ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You and I tend to believe that we have a pretty good grip on reality. Reality is for grown-ups. Imagination is for children. But even as adults, we don&#8217;t actually live in reality. We live in our imaginations.\u00a0 I think we don&#8217;t notice it because our imaginations have grown blander, flatter, and &#8211; too often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10442,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions\/10442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}