Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, O My!

O! There's so much that I want to talk about today, but look at the time. Here it's rapidly approaching 11 am, and I am barely functional. I shall have to limit myself to one topic, or two. I slept in, you see, until about 9. Then, I have been struggling for brainwave activity ever since.
I started drinking iced tea rather than coffee in the mornings. I didn't do it on purpose. It was just that the other day, I wanted something cold in the morning, and tea was available. I haven't had coffee in 3 days. I am having oodles of caffeine, though. Which is very fun.


How deliberately do you employ your imagination? Unless you are an artist of some kind, I would guess that imagination is something you have abandoned to the realm of small children.
I think it's something that should season the lives of Christians, though. I've been reading a lot in the Old Testament, and the books are full of fantastical stories. There are giants, and dragons, and magic. People fly in flaming chariots, and are protected by invisible armies, the sun stands still, and animals speak.
There is a part of me, a very large part, that is emboldened by fairy tales. To find that the foundations of my real world, are more spectacular than childhood books, is a very exciting discovery.
It is my Creator who designed fire-breathing dragons. This God has an imagination that far surpasses my limited ability to dream. I want to be grander in my belief. My requests need to have a bolder flavor. You and I need to expect more of God, I think, and to expect more of ourselves.
My prayers are more often a checklist, than a conversation pregnant with expectation and wonder. Why is that? If my God can fashion a perfect man from the dust, then surely He can gift wrap one on my doorstep. Just kidding. But do you see my point?
How ought we to pray?
How ought we to think?
To live?
What if we functioned like the biblical heroes of old? Are we really different from them? I don't think so. Our God is the same. What Power is at our fingertips! What majesty surrounds us!
God, give me prayers that will electrify this space in time that I occupy. Strip my eyes of the shades which blind me to the armies which surround me. Fire my days with dragons and giants, that Your Magical Wonder would be Evident, both to me, and to those who are watching.
Never allow me to forget for a moment that I am part of an Epic tale of Profound Importance.
Amen, and amen.