Child Dreams

Dreams can be the source of so much joy, excitement, and then also pain, disappointment, hurt, and sadness.  But however you feel about dreams, they will remain important to the human spirit and I believe to our Abba.  I once heard Graham Cooke say, "you don't inherit through logic but through dreams."  It seems that dreams are one of the languages of Heaven and yet on earth can be the source of so much pain.  Jesus says this about children, "and said, "And He called a child to Himself and set him before them,Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven."  (Matthew 18:2-4)  I point this out because it is children who are more free to dream, imagine, and go into fantasy.  Yet to experience the Kingdom of God Jesus is inviting us (and the disciples) to become like little children again and dream.  It is adults who are constantly worried about how much it will take to do something, how to do it, when to do it, if you can do it, and getting it done by the deadline.  These are not the things of dreams but of the everyday world of work, home, school, and life in the adult world.  Everything has to do with the limits, the amount of resources, managing what I have, and staying within the boundaries.  When we choose to enter into the world of dreams, limits are blown away and the only barriers are the ones we put up.  Interesting that Jesus would hold up children as the ones who could enter the Kingdom because they know how to dream, trust, get excited, play, and see beyond this world.  Since the Kingdom of God is not something we can see with our natural eyes, the eyes of our heart need to be opened up (Ephesians 1:18).  For me I gave up dreaming as a child because I judged others who had dreams that never happened.  After I had been continually disappointed when I would dream I gave up dreaming and became an adult at early age.  Failure is part of life, yet when you let failure take your dreams than you lose hope because we were made to dream.  The Lord showed me that He made me to dream and that He likes when I risk to dream.  I recently worked with a young woman involved in a legalistic cult, one of the things the Lord showed me that was taken from her was her dreams.  Legalism is very black and white, so creativity is sacrificed for control, predictability, and selfish gain.  Our spirit was made to soar in the heavenly places "in Christ" but how are we going to do that if we don't imagine but simply look at the day to day life and the natural world.  Through Christ's finished work we are able to soar, things that were once totally impossible can become possible for those who will have their imagination directed through Christ.  Dreams come to us in seed form, they are ideas that are far beyond where things are now and we are today.  Seeds are fragile, so are our dreams and the need an environment where they can grow and take root.  Often at this stage is when the Enemy seeks to destroy dreams through all the thoughts that say the dream is not possible, practical, or will ever happen.  When we agree with these thoughts then they start the process of aborting the seed of the dream that God wanted to birth through us, we need a renewed mine, others that will believe in us, and the work of the Holy Spirit to ultimately bring the dream to pass.  The YouTube clip is actually an clip for a past Conference but he says well what keeps us from our dreams.  It was God who dreamed the biggest dream ever possible to redeem a world that had been distorted and twisted through the entrance of sin.  Christ's entrance in the world was the ultimate dream come to fruition.

In the Master Dreamer,
Bret