I had a dream a couple years ago, that really left a deep impact on me, and launched me on a path that has turned my religious upbringing and ideals on it's ear! I pray it has an impact on you and your life as well!
***In this dream I was sitting in the sanctuary of a church on the front row. A Pastor was up on the stage, but his back was to the seats as it looked as if he was busy preparing for a service. I noticed there were only two or three others sitting in the whole sanctuary with me. It wasn't a large church, maybe seating for about 150 to 200 people.
A man walked in and sat next to me. I did not recognize him, but in my dream I did know him. I knew him very well and I loved him very deeply. We had a very strong relationship. We chatted a bit, He told me he was glad to see me there. After a few minutes he started looking at his watch nervously, then looking back at the doors that led into the sanctuary. Over and over he checked his watch and then the doors, each time getting more and more distraught. I asked him what was wrong and he said, "My bride. . . I am waiting for my bride to get here." I told him I was sure she would arrive soon. He said, "You don't understand, if she doesn't show up it will be too late. Why does she not come to me?" I put my arm around him and tried to speak words of comfort, but nothing was easing his pain.
He was wringing his hands and burying his head in his hands, always turning toward the door as if expecting her to walk in at any moment. The longer we waited the more distraught he became to the point that he was weeping. When he began weeping I knew it was too late. We stood together and walked to the back of the sanctuary arm in arm. I was still doing my best to comfort him. it was time for him to leave, and I was leaving with him. As the doors of the sanctuary opened up and we walked into the foyer there was a flurry of activity, everyone busy, cleaning, working, doing all sorts of tasks. We walked right through the middle of them, and no one seemed to notice, but walked right past in their rush to get their tasks done. He was weeping as we walked out, yet no one stopped or even looked our way.***
I guess it is obvious by now Who He was. And obvious, I hope, the lesson in this dream. Are you so busy DOING that you have forgotten to just BE with Him? Are you so occupied with "performance", that you have lost sight of entering into and staying in His REST? Are you so concerned with being accepted and "earning your place", that you have forgotten that you ALREADY ARE accepted, and that HE earned that place for you long ago? Are you so caught up with people pleasing and being noticed by so-called "leadership", that you have replaced Him as first in your heart with the desire for promotion, the praise of men, and "stardom" in your little church "community"? I've been all these things. I was all these things when God gave me this dream. This dream launched a journey in my life that I could never have predicted or foreseen. Because my "religious" mindset would never have accepted some of the areas this journey has taken me. . . . THANK GOD He broke through all that garbage and reached ME. Not every journey will look the same, because the paths our lives have taken to this point all look different, there is a different work to be done in each individual heart. But if we are willing to let go of all the WE deem as important, and take God out of our pretty little boxes, trust me, He is more than ready to blow our minds and reveal His true character to us, and He will!!
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