Dreaming

What is your dream for the next step in your life? Getting older, my dreams are less dramatic or big as a younger person's. But they don't have to be. Mark Batterson said in his book, Win The Day, "Show me the size of your dream and I'll show you the size of your God."

Our dreams can be as big as we want. If there is something we really want to do, or be, or a place we really want to go, we should plan for it to happen. And pray. Not that God will flash His powerful arm and it will instantly be true but God on your side is the best way to start.

In the Bible God uses dreams often to bring a message to one of His faithful followers. Joseph, of the Old Testament, was given a gift of interpreting dreams and it helped him get a better job under Pharaoh. It also helped him save his family from the famine and thousands more people by stockpiling food during good years.

Dreams came to another Joseph in the New Testament, Mary's husband. He received dreams to tell him it was truly a baby from the Holy Spirit that Mary was carrying. (Matthew 1:20-21). Joseph received another dream to warn him of the danger of Herod wanting to kill his son. Joseph took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. (Matthew 2:13-14 NIV).

Don't be afraid to dream big. God can make the impossible happen. Maybe our dreams are in God's plan for our life! If we talk to Him about our dreams we can discern if the dream is one God wants for us, too. Dream on.

"For nothing is impossible with God," (Luke 1:37 NIV).