How about this for imagination?

You are gonna love this, I tell you, sit up straight this you must see...

Let us pick it up from Num 13 and paraphrase as we go...lovely I tell you..."

And The Lord spoke to Moses, saying "Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, ..." Now these guys were sent out to check out Canaan literally if they had digital cams they proberbly would have taken some pics we can google. Is that it?

So God instead of focusing on the other more pressing issues of the day he chose to let these guys go get a mental pic of the place. Wow... Why couldn't God just give them the picture? no no , no slide shows, you must make up a mental picture of your own... Let us read on for evidence of this.. From verse 17 as we paraphrase " so Moses sent them to spy (get an imagine we can use) out the land of Canaan, ...." 18 "and see what the land is like; ..." aha

Moses; so you want a returned imagine of the view... So before Israel can much in they hand to choose between the week or strong, few or many, rich or poor etc.

...before you tackle your problems, say a life threatening disease, a family braking apart, kids that don't listen, bills that pile up... You have to give God a mental picture of what the situation looks like...

Report back 1 - dude, we went and spied the land, it flows with mind and honey alright ....Nevertheless (Hear comes the BUT) 28 The the people who dwell in the land are strong, the cities are fortified and very large. 33. Those guys are giants, and we, haaa Moses, we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight." Proberly one of those guys was thinking "Moses;..dude...this is not like cracking water out of the rock or parting the Red see, this is some serious staff dude, the image we bring is that of a grasshoppers in own sight and surely that image is transferred to their sight, man... "
Ok to report 2

Report 2
"Hash, Let's go get them ..." v30 then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said "let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it."

Well gues who won that argument....

Do you want to be quoted by God like these guys who won the argument or the one who brought back he victory image of your situation? See how God quotes them in judgement...

Ooh; before we go to the judgement, the guys who brought the victory image and Moses were torn by this, for real man, they actually fell on their faces and tore their clothes. Read it for yourself in Num 14:6 they couldn't believe this, same guys saw same thing and came back with a terrible report. They even tried to convince them to reconsider ver 7' and gues what? the mob rioted against good council. Are you reading this saying no man Reups, you just do not know my situation, how about it? Stop the riot act and believe God! But how can you believe God if you have formed the wrong image of the outcome of your situation? "No man Reuben this will kill me, " well, be it you believe God or not as things stand this is how you going to end... So you might as well take Moses' council, for as sure as I am saying this' dude I am NOT going to tear my clothes to convince you...or risk a riot, yo....See the verdict,

In Num 14:11 - their bad imagination (image) of the situation is judged as unbelief:
V12 - this leads to Gods wrath on them, unbelief leads to loosing the very inheritance you have in Christ ...

Num14: 26 is titled "The death of the rebels" scary staff happened in between verse 26 and 37 hey, people died chief, I tell you people died; of a plague. Some horrible staff this. but before you despair read out what happened with those guys who actually used their imagination to see beyond their own eyes and saw through the eyes of faith...are you ready?

Here goes

Num 14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of the men who went to spy out the land" Are you still asking why ....? Well praise God for Eps 3:20 20New International Version (©1984)Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,...

Within us? Yep! You are able to ask, think and imagine and God is able to grant far more than that....so ask, imagine, think away, God is ready and able dude!