Think Again!

66 • Think Again: Transformation That Yields a Return on God’s Investment

electromagnetic, and even subatomic. The power of habits can be broken, because the Father has an interest in who you become. You can become a new person day by day! The God of Imagination The Father is also the God of imagination. The devil uses the scheme of pie-splitting preservation, resisting the Father’s imagination. When preservation wants to split the pie, imagination makes more pies . Preservation wants to seize power, but imagination wants to empower others. Imagination sees a universe of mysterious unknowns yet to be revealed, of com- plexity and wonder, while preservation says “believe only what you can see and measure.” Through the diversity of his creation, the Father’s imagination is manifested everywhere we look. The Father is free to act in creative, surprising ways. He provides rams stuck in thickets, makes axe heads float, and releases plagues that discredit the gods of Egypt. He sends his Son as a zygote in a Nazarene peasant girl, dispatching angels to visit shepherds, while saying nothing to experts in the Law parsing out texts in Jerusalem. He sends the Spirit to appear in tongues of fire at Pentecost and baffles religious leaders through uneducated apostles. The Father is full of generosity, providing every good and perfect gift that humans have imagined. He delights in his creation and rejoices in us (Zeph. 3.17). His sovereign rule can be felt like warm ray of sunshine cracking through the curtains. Dallas Willard said, “We should think that God leads a very interesting life, and that he is full of joy. Undoubtedly he is the most joyous being in the universe. The abundance of his love and generosity is inseparable from his infinite joy. All of the good and beautiful things from which we occasionally drink tiny