{"id":3633,"date":"2008-11-10T21:22:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T02:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/os-chambers\/imagination-v-inspiration"},"modified":"2008-11-10T21:22:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T02:22:25","slug":"imagination-v-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/11\/10\/imagination-v-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"IMAGINATION V. INSPIRATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The simplicity that is in Christ.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212; 2 Corinthians 11:3<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Simplicity is the secret of seeing things clearly. A saint does not<br \/>think clearly for a long while, but a saint ought to see clearly<br \/>without any difficulty. You cannot think a spiritual muddle clear,<br \/>you have to obey it clear. In intellectual matters you can think<br \/>things out, but in spiritual matters you will think yourself into<br \/>cotton wool. If there is something upon which God has put His<br \/>pressure, obey in that matter, bring your imagination into captivity<br \/>to the obedience of Christ with regard to it and everything will<br \/>become as clear as daylight. The reasoning capacity comes afterwards,<br \/>but we never see along that line, we see like children; when we try<br \/>to be wise we see nothing (Matthew 11:25). <\/p>\n<p>The tiniest thing we allow in our lives that is not under the control<br \/>of the Holy Spirit is quite sufficient to account for spiritual<br \/>muddle, and all the thinking we like to spend on it will never make<br \/>it clear. Spiritual muddle is only made plain by obedience.<br \/>Immediately we obey, we discern. This is humiliating, because when we<br \/>are muddled we know the reason is in the temper of our mind. When the<br \/>natural power of vision is devoted to the Holy Spirit, it becomes the<br \/>power of perceiving God&#8217;s will and the whole life is kept in<br \/>simplicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The simplicity that is in Christ. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212; 2 Corinthians 11:3 Simplicity is the secret of seeing things clearly. A saint does notthink clearly for a long while, but a saint ought to see clearlywithout any difficulty. You cannot think a spiritual muddle clear,you have to obey it clear. In intellectual matters you can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}