Imagination or Vision?

Imagination or Vision?
I was just thinking and my meditation took me far into the world of imagination. I see the good, the bad and the ugly sides of imagination and I realised how much it has to be understood.
I see how much is made from imaginations, we love to be entertained by imagination as much as we love to entertain it. How many fictional books is being released everyday? How many movies are being made daily out of the imaginations of men? Probably they'll end up selling much more than realities and more acceptable than true stories. I love true stories and so do many, the truth is that they are so few and may be drab and boring. Not for lack of materials, six billion people and probably as much that have lived before them provide boundless materials from experiences unimaginable.  But non fictions still remain less than that which came out of our imaginations.
Man's needs coupled with his imaginations have produced unimaginable progress for mankind. Blessed be the mind that imagined man on the moon, blessed be the one who imagined the greatness the race has attained and the innovations that brought us here. And such are the benefits of imagination being positive and progressive and God borne.
Essentially, I see that the capacity to imagine is God given and it is a free world where all things are possible. Man has the right to day dream and travel far and wide, enjoying what time and space cannot afford him, living in so much pleasure he cannot pay for and filling his life with joy and happiness at the same time without a reason. I believe it must be therapeutic within it's instinctive bounds and not beyond for it shares the same boundaries with insanity.
As much as man has the right to dream and day dream, he can't live in the dream world. He wouldn't survive there. You must wake up to make the dream come true. Man must wake up to live the dream. If the the imagination would not become a stronghold for the enemy. The enemy of destiny would prefer you stay there, he'll prefer you build a castle in there then he can take over and become an evil king in an empire he didn't build.
Our imaginations have boundaries and we must maintain the boundaries to be safe.
Imaginations run on the fuel of ignorance and born of lack of the knowledge of reality and jointly sired by our desires and wishes. When ignorance and wishes combine in an un-inquisitive mind, it creates it's own realities that take such away from the path of vision.
Now that I'd mentioned vision we must find out how they relate.  Vision brings the possibilities that we are yet to experience. It is that light that shines into the heart from the heart of God. It is the progressive revelations of the things God has created which time has deprived us of seeing yet. They are spiritual realities concerning the planet which their time hasn't arrived. Vision is the revealed picture of the end and of purpose when it is fulfilled revealed from the beginning. It is the light of God shinning on the path of the good works ordained before that we should walk in in the now. It is beyond mere imagination which may not be stable and when stable becomes a stronghold. When it is vision, eyes hasn't seen it, hear is yet to perceive it and it won't enter into the mind of man except revealed into our spirits.
But we prefer imaginations to the realities of vision. It suits the flesh better and more easily accessible. Why must I take the pain to build according to what was shown me on the mount? What if the plan shown me will deprive me of my dreams and aspirations? There thoughts rise against the knowledge of God and strategies take over from divine instructions. And it is defensible, we have results to show for such after the order of the tower of Babel. Would God always scatter the tongue to bring failure to the evil imaginations of the heart of men? No! And why? I know not, but if He does, evil won't be on the earth anymore and we'll all follow God as zombies and not from our free will betraying the original design of man. He made us free moral agents.
This is where our warfare is. Our lusts war against our souls. Our aspirations war against divine instructions, our ambitions wage war against our vision. Our mind wage war against our spirits. The eternal war between good and evil. Man would love to do whatever he deems good even if only for now with dire consequences later. He wants to be known, he wants sexual pleasure and some even imagines rape, he wants money and materials and these desires fill the mind against higher thoughts. They fight the more noble desires. Yet he can achieve them with his God given gifts and potentials and so why not? But working with imaginations that stem out of mere interests, selfish desires and inordinate affeftions are abuse of the working of the mind. The battle we see physically and the present territorial occupational warfare may not be of vision but of ambition borne out of evil imaginations to satisfy the flesh. When imagination is empowered above vision, ignorance is enthroned over knowledge and man walks on in darkness sparking his own dim lights aside divine illumination.
The weapons of our warfare aren't carnal but mighty when in God. It is fought by the knowledge of God's vision. The prophesies gone ahead make for successful expedition in spiritual battles. The knowledge of divine instructions pulls down strongholds and cast down imaginations and thoughts that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God. And when our obedience to the heavenly vision is complete, then comes the vengeance against every disobedience to our vision.
What is in store is far above what we can ask out of desires or imagined out of ignorance left to the power already released to power our visions into fulfilment.
What is the light shinning in your heart?  What are the instructions coming from the heart of God? Lift them above your personal desires and aspirations and that light will take you far. Rate your imaginations below your vision. Leave out imagining what has not been revealed. Excuse the thoughts and the imaginations of other minds that are yet to be spoken out and if you need to know then just ask. Don't imagine things you can investigate, you might be wrong and the wrong imagination will take away from vision. Don't let imagination bring you to conclusive statements about people and issues. Prejudice comes out of realities laced with imaginatons. The irrestrictive and non-submissive nature of imagination makes it undependable and only knowledge borne out of investigation and research would handle it. When imagination is taken for reality, catastrophe always results. Life only thrives on the true picture of things, people and events. There are things we'll never know this side of heaven though they'd happened here but they'll not be replaced by imaginative rebuilding or reenactment no matter what. It's a pity that we love lies and will sit watching a lie made into pictures for hours unending being entertained and some will still live life as if those lies were true. Some will even treat actors as if they're the imagined characters in reality format. But man must grow beyond rating imagination that high. Man must be in charge of his imagination and not let his imaginations control him. When imaginations take the driver's seat destination isn't sure anymore. Let vison drive and destiny is sure.
Good understanding procures favor. Good morning. Thanks for reading and keep visiting evansademanuel.blogspot.com and follow the light of vision always...