The Imagination: Artists rely on it for creative power. Businesses look to it for innovative ideas. Children engage it for hours of play. And Albert Einstein is reputed to have said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Then, why does the Bible counsel that in order to be spiritually effective, we must be "casting down imaginations"?
I disciplined
my thought
to accept only
the spiritual
truths of God.
The answer was made clear to me when I was suffering from a foot injury. After a fall when water-skiing, I was unable to walk and had to be carried to my bed. As I began to pray, acknowledging man's spiritual nature as God's image and affirming many of the other healing truths that I had learned as a student of Christian Science, I found myself imagining that I would not be able to walk to Sunday School the next morning. Maybe I would need crutches. Did I need to call a substitute teacher? Perhaps I wouldn't be able to go to work on Monday. I might be in a wheelchair for months, unable to work at all, and even lose my job!
