IMAGINE

I arrived home from work to find a package waiting for me. I knew what the box must contain, but even so my hands trembled and my heart beat faster in anticipation as I began opening the box. As I reached the inside packing, I stopped and took a deep breath before I lifted the paper revealing the now familiar cover. A cover wrapped around a dream; a dream that had come true.

With tears in my eyes and joy in my heart I picked up the book, and held it against my heart as I whispered, “I never imagined…” I couldn’t finish. I had no words to describe what was in my heart. “I imagined it,” He said. My heart looked up as He whom my soul loves drew me into His presence. “I never thought…” I tried again to put my emotions into words. I thought He would quiet my heart but instead He led my jubilant, overwhelmed heart to His Word.

We went together to 1 Corinthians 2:9 and I read it out loud, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

I closed my eyes and allowed the golden threads of His truth to weave themselves into my soul. His Words from Jeremiah 29:11 filled my heart, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.” Verse 12 jumped off the pages of His book into my heart as I read on, “Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.”

My heart looked up at Him as I whispered, “Verse 12 is all about having a conversation with You.” His eyes danced as He simply said, “Yes.” The title on my book cover caught my eye then, “Conversations at the Well, Heart-to-Heart Conversations With God”, I said it out loud. His laugh filled the air – oh how I love to hear His laughter. We sat under the moon He had placed in the sky long before I had ever taken a breath and He told me how He had known every day of my life before there was yet even one of them (Psalm 139). My heart bowed at His feet as I realized anew His faithfulness. His goodness. His unsurpassed love. No, I could not have imagined being a published author, but God did. I looked again at the cover that enclosed a dream; a dream that didn’t begin in my heart. No, this dream began before the foundation of the world, in the very heart of God. I closed my eyes there in the Master Dreamer’s presence and tried to imagine where He would take me next and I realized I could not out-dream or out-imagine God.

Words to a song my friend Rob Biagi wrote came to mind.
IMAGINE
What can I say to the God who makes my heart beat?
Who made up a plan just for me
Long, long ago?
What must I do to give You my whole heart and soul?
It’s for You I want You to know
I am Your child
And what, what could we do if I gave all of me to You?
And where, where would we go if I really learned to follow?
You say, Imagine.
You say, Follow.
You say, Open your life to Me; you’ll see.
You say, Imagine
Music by: Rob Biagi
Lyrics by: Rob Biagi
Copyright 2003 Rob Biagi/BMI


As I sat in the presence of He who holds all my days His voice thundered through the stillness, “Imagine. Follow.” My heart joyfully ran to follow Him wherever He takes me next.
My dear friend, what about you? What is it the Lord wants to do in you and through you? Will you follow Him? Will you surrender to Him? It all begins with a Conversation.