I wonder, does having a vivid imagination make it easier to have faith?
Of course I know that faith is the gift of God; I'm not intending to be heretical or blasphemous...I'm just pondering. Are imaginations a gift of God too?
I don't have any difficulty having faith in God's protection; it's quite easy for me to imagine angels in tents around my house. Is it more challenging to believe in angels if your imagination is lacking?
Does the ability to envision fairies and elves enable you to grasp the reality of an unseen God who created the world with a Word? Does curiosity about gnomes and goblins make it easier to acknowledge the real existence of angels and demons? Does fancying that pixie dust can make you fly prepare your mind to accept miracles?
Has God given us imaginations so that we can dream about what Heaven looks like? Are we able to grasp its existence and aspire to someday dwell there because we once dreamed of beautiful palaces in far off lands, or enchanted cottages?
Is there a connection at all between faith and imagination?
For me, it is a delight that although I've had to grow up and recognize that there are no such things as leprechauns; I don't have to stop believing in streets paved with gold and a Savior seated at the right hand of the Father. Because there really, truly is such a wonderful place as Heaven, and I know that I'm going there someday! Someday I shall see my Bridegroom face to face. Someday I'll live with Him for all eternity. And if I use my imagination, I can almost picture it....
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:...
And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Revelation 21:10-12, & 18-27 | 
