What is Your Dream?

What do you want in life? What do you want to do? What do you want to be? When you ask children they can answer you quickly. They want to be a fireman, a policeman, a soldier, a doctor, a baseball player, etc. They know what they want to be. We tend to smile and discount what they say at that point and then proceed to undermine their God given creativity telling them they can only color “inside the lines” and we scold them if we catch them in school “daydreaming.”

God made us to be dreamers, to be people of vision. We have the privilege to choose our dream. Someone said, “You’re dreams and destiny do not come by CHANCE they are your CHOICE. God gave Joseph a dream, but he had to choose to embrace it. Did you know you can go anywhere you want to in life... if you know where you want to go. You can have anything you want in life... if you know what you want. Remember in Alice in Wonderland, Alice asked the cat, "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" The cat answered, "That depends a great deal on where you want to go." Alice said, "Oh, I don't much care." He answered, "Then it really doesn't matter which way you go."

The proverb writer reminds us, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” (Proverbs 29:18 KJV)

The NIV says it this way, “Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint. (Proverbs 29:18 NIV)

In others words we need a dream to give us structure in our lives, to channel our energy in the right direction, to guide us in our decision making. Joseph went through some extremely difficult and even unfair times in his life, but through it all he never lost the dream. The dream God gave him was that one day he would be a significant leader among his people. The dream kept him going when his brothers wanted to kill him, when he was sold into slavery (slave - leader, somehow that doesn’t calculate), when others lied about him, and the liars were believed landing him in an Egyptian prison. He never lost the dream, the vision.

What is your dream? What do you want in life? Don’t allow life to just happen to you. Choose your dream. Choose your destiny. Oh, but you say, “I want God to just give me a dream.” That’s great, but you still must embrace it, choose it, think about it, meditate on it, never let go of it. Think about it... dreams - faith, faith - dreams. They really are the same. “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for (that’s the dream) and certain of what we do not see.” (Hebrews 11:1 NIV)

Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank You for the dreams You place in our hearts. Help me to be true to that dream no matter what life may look like at the moment. I want to hold on to the dream, talk about the dream, expect the dream to happen in my life. It is Your promise that “if I delight myself in You then You will give me the desires of my heart”... my dreams. AMEN

Blessings!
Pastor Roger