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The Play Room of the Soul

Posted by on October 29, 2010 in General | Leave a comment

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Charles Spurgeon:

Did you ever have the light of God brought to bear upon your imagination? Imagination is the ‘play room’ of the soul. Here many a man considers that he is without law. "Surely," says he, "thought is free." The man gloats over sins which he would fear to commit. He finds a pleasure in thinking over lusts which his circumstances compel him to avoid. In the dark chambers of imagination the heart commits adulteries, murders, thefts, and all manner of infamies.

When the light of God falls upon the imagination, the man shudders as he learns that "as he thinks in his heart so is he". He trembles as he perceives that the fond imagination of sin, is sin. Then is the floor of imagination purged, and the foul dust and chaff are driven into the fire. Imagination then gleams in the light of God, and, having washed in the brazen laver, sings songs on her stringed instruments unto the God of her salvation, who has brought her out of darkness into his marvelous light.

– CHS, The Eye and the Light, #2109