"Dream big." "Chase after your dreams." What other catch-phrases are out there? We might use the words "vision" or "purpose" instead, but really they all point to this idea that most of us want to have a bigger reason to be here, not just to breathe air, eat, sleep, and die.
A pastor recently talked about first making sure those are God’s dreams for us, not our own. And I agree. But, even before that, consider— is GOD your dream? When people are in love, oftentimes all they really want is the other person with them. That person is the dream. If we are truly in love with Jesus, then He should be all we want...if He is our dream, then He will also be the One to give us dreams to pursue and to achieve, for Him. As Psalm 37:4 tells us, “Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” As we delight in Him, His desires become ours.
A pastor recently talked about first making sure those are God’s dreams for us, not our own. And I agree. But, even before that, consider— is GOD your dream? When people are in love, oftentimes all they really want is the other person with them. That person is the dream. If we are truly in love with Jesus, then He should be all we want...if He is our dream, then He will also be the One to give us dreams to pursue and to achieve, for Him. As Psalm 37:4 tells us, “Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” As we delight in Him, His desires become ours.
In Luke 10, we read about the sisters Mary and Martha. Martha may have had a dream to follow Jesus; she certainly was fulfilling the dream of serving Him! Yet she was not satisfied— as none of us will be if we pursue our dreams and even accomplish them, apart from Him. We may even wonder if we should have chased after those dreams in the first place. We may compare our accomplishments with others and believe we’ve come up short, or we may feel resentful that others are not helping us achieve our dreams, as Martha acted toward Mary.
Mary, on the other hand, made Christ her dream. She sat at His feet and listened to Him, learned from Him, dwelled in His presence. Jesus said, “Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her” (v. 42 NIV).
So, how do we make sure our dreams are from God? We actually don’t start with that question. First, we must ask ourselves if HE is our dream. We walk with Him, talk with Him, spend time in His Word, and let Him speak to us through His Holy Spirit. He must pour His Spirit into us: "’In the last days,’ God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams’” (Acts 2:17). As “we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28) in Him, then we can dream His Dream and begin to live it out.
Make the Dream-Maker your All-in-All, your Dream, and the dreams, the purpose He has for you, will be there, waiting for you.
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