“Because that, when they knew God they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations , and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts …” - Romans 1:21-24, KJV As I drove home from work yesterday, listening to a sermon CD based on these verses and dealing specifically with the power of the imagination (as depicted in bold above), I was struck by one comment made by the preacher: It would do us all some good to spend more time remembering. He talked about remembering all that God had done for us in the past, about remembering how faithful God had been to us, about reciting to ourselves all...
Pressing in, not turning back, growing in faith, not growing slack, ... daring to be restless with anything less than God's best.