i·de·a
[ahy-dee-uh, ahy-deeuh] Show IPA
–noun
1. any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
2. a thought, conception, or notion: That is an excellent idea.
3. an impression: He gave me a general idea of how he plans to run the department.
4. an opinion, view, or belief: His ideas on raising children are certainly strange.
5. a plan of action; an intention: the idea of becoming an engineer.
6. a groundless supposition; fantasy.
7. Philosophy .
a. a concept developed by the mind.
b. a conception of what is desirable or ought to be; ideal.
c. ( initial capital letter ) Platonism . Also called form. an archetype or pattern of which the individual objects in any natural class are imperfect copies and from which they derive their being.
d. Kantianism . idea of pure reason.
8. Music . a theme, phrase, or figure.
9. Obsolete .
a. a likeness.
b. a mental image.
That is quite a mouthful, but I don't think that you are reading this for information you can easily find on the internet, just as I did. This is the definition of an idea, a conception or merely, a thought. I believe, that an idea is more than just something as simple as a thought, a mere conception produced from another thought. I think it is a collection of thoughts centered towards a goal.
In fact,
I believe an idea is a weapon.
A thought can linger in someone's head longer than they realize. You do not forget anything, rather, you forget you know. Everything remains in your head, it's just that the longer it sits there, the more information and thoughts pour down into your brain. The more you learn, the more you begin to forget that you know a certain thing unless you have been constantly pounding it in to your head. That's what an idea can do.
In the movie Inception, Arthur talks to Saito about the idea of inception, planting an idea in someone's mind that originally isn't there own but allowing them to believe, no matter how different it may be to their natural thinking, that they came up with it on their own. But naturally, it has to be believable to the other person, otherwise it won't work. But here is the part that caught me.
Arthur: "The concept is this: I tell you not to think about elephants. What do you do?"
Saito: "Elephants."
Arthur: "Exactly, but that's not your idea."
I may not have it word for word, but essentially it is this. By speaking, we can easily plant a thought into someone's mind, while not being there own, that can begin to grow like a plant. A bad thought can grow like a weed in someone's mind and the difficulty in pushing it back remains the same. Have you tried to not think about something? What was the result?
For me, it's basic reverse psychology. By trying to not think about it, somewhere deep in my mind I was still thinking about it except I was concentrating more on how not to think about it. Regardless of what I was attempting to do, it remains as this: it was still in my mind, no matter how small or how hard I pushed it down.
So, here is what we have so far:
1. An idea can be like a weapon, easily infiltrating our mind and growing inside of our heads beyond our will.
2. The power of words are stronger than we know.
Genesis 1:3-4: And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
Notice how after God spoke the light into existence, light came to be.The power of the words, "Let there be light" allowed the existence of light to come in to the universe and begin it's role as it was created to be. So what we have here is that words can do something far powerful than we ever realize. This is what I believe, so feel free to move along if you do not agree.
We are created in the image of God.
Genesis 1:27: So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
So, by being made in the image of God, I believe that God thought of the world before He decided to create it. Of course, He was going to create it no matter what, but as we learn in Psychology and Biology (might be rambling now) is that in our bodies, electrical synapses run through. We can't even so much as twicth without an impulse running from our brain to the certain part of the body that made the twitch. I don't believe the whole, "do you think before you speak" deal because obviously several thousand impulses have to be running from the speech portion of our brain to our mouths and tongues to form words. Sure, what came out must have been idiotic, but certainly the thought of what they were going to say seemed right at the time. It's just that they didn't think through what they were going to say well enough.
End ramble.
SO, God, in His infinite power, must have thought about creating the world and what He wanted in it. Then, after knowing what was going on, He began to speak the world into existence, and the rest is history. (Feel free to disagree after you have read it. I don't claim to have the answers) The same goes with any project that we do here. We think about what we want to do, an "idea" of how it is going to look like, and then we get to work. Haven't you ever just started the process by going, "Alright, here is what we are going to do. First, blah blah blah," and then you start speaking this idea, this project, into existence. Now that the words are out there, they can come into a physical being with the hands of the worker.
Let's put it this way:
A thought, an idea is a bullet, and words (or speech) is the gun which fires off the idea. A bullet by itself can do nothing. A gun with no bullets is just a piece of scrap metal that you can throw at someone but then you have no gun and you're left, "Welp, guess I can get beat up now." In order for one to be effective, you must have both. The same thing goes for us.
Without God, we can do nothing.
John 15: 5-8: “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
Jesus is speaking clearly to the disciples now. He is the vine, we are the branches. Without the vine, we can not produce fruit and therefore thrown aside because we are not fruitful. In Him, we can do all things. Notice how He says, "If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you." Look at the bolded word and the text surrounding it. If Jesus and everything He has spoken into our lives remain in us, anything we ask for will be added to us. Pretty deep stuff.
Round-Up:
1. An idea is a bullet, a weapon given to us to be used for good purposes.
2. Speech is a gun, used to propel ideas forward with the hope of hitting the target, the audience.
3. Words are stronger than we know, because they can be used to create.
4. In order for our words to be strong, we need to remain in Jesus. We need to create with God.
An idea is far stronger than we give it credit for. An idea led an insane man to create a world war and commit genocide among a people group. An idea also brought salvation to an entire world.
I figure that idea would look something like this:
"What if I can reconcile with my children through my own blood? What if I could bring them all back into wholeness with Me, by sacrificing myself and breaking their chains? What if I could saved them?"
That powerful idea, led to Jesus, coming into the world and dying on a cross for our sins. He set the captives free. The blind see. The deaf hear. The lame walk. All because of an idea that was spoken into existence, and gave power to the rest of us through His words.
Let's create with God. Let's use our ideas and come up with the next great things in our generation so that God can be glorified.
This is totally a teaching. Holy smokes.
If you disagree with anything that I have put up here, feel free to leave a comment. Let me know your thoughts so I don't look like a complete n00b.
Thanks!
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