Dreams

Do you dream?

I know that sounds like a silly question.  But the deeper question is this: What do you dream God is doing in your life?

            Are you dreaming of stability in the midst of rough times?

            Are you dreaming of assurance when your life seems like a bunch of unknowns?

            Are you dreaming of deeper relationship?   Or how about just some relationships?

            Friendships?
           Mentorships?
           Activity?

            How about peace?
           Rest?
           Life?

            Now is the time to dream!

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In the Bible, the common thought is that prophets are fortunetellers. However, this is incorrect. First of all, fortunetelling and divination are forbidden by God in the Torah (Exodus 20:18; Leviticus 19:26b; and Deuteronomy 18:10). There’s very practical reason for this:
                       if one is able to manipulate God with words or actions,
                       then God is ultimately Lord of all and over all things.

Rather than being fortunetellers, prophets are truth tellers and dreamers! They tell the truth as it is about our brokenness and need for God’s guidance in life. Then they dream up one of, if not two scenarios: what will happen if we keep doing doing this track and what can happen if we turn our lives and live with God. Within the later is the deeper dream of what God hopes to do through us.

Consider the following from Joel. In chapter 2, the prophet describes the great day of the Lord in which God will right all wrongs and renew the world; and it will seem like the world as we know it is ending because we have become so lost to God’s original vision. Then we read,
“Then afterward I will pour out my spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams,  and your young men shall see visions. Even on the male and female slaves, in those days, I will pour out my spirit. I will show portents in the heavens and the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.  The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes… For then, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem.”

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God has brought us so far in the past three years that I have been with you all. Hear me call to you as God is: Dream! What we are experiencing now is just a foretaste of what can come. So keep dreaming! Keep praying. Keep asking, ‘how can God use me to make God’s dreams my dreams?’ and, ‘how can God use me to make those dreams a reality?’

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The people of God dreamed for a Messiah. And as we await to celebrate the fulfillment of that dream, may we dream of our transformation into God’s continued work and our Lord Jesus’ return when God will restore all creation. Amen.