Explanation pins things down so that we can handle them and use them – obey and   teach, handle and guide.  Imagination opens things up so that we can grow into maturity – worship and adore, follow and trust. Explanation defines and holds down; imagination expands and lets loose.  Explanation puts us in harness; imagination catapults us into mystery.  Explanation reduces life to what can be used; imagination enlarges life into what can be adored.1
So we begin by asking God to speak to our imaginations:

Eugene Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant.