I pray that you
will experience a God given dream. We can ask for holy vision to be
given us by the Spirit of God. Acts 2:17 offers hope of new noble
dreams to reach for, “I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall
see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.” The power of
holy vision can give us energy to grow faithful and fruitful lives
for the Kingdom of God.
The famous
musical, “South Pacific” , has lyrics that speak of this need ,
“If you don't talk happy, and you never have a dream, how will you
ever have a dream come true?” One of the enriching gifts of being
filled with the Holy Spirit is to dream new possibilities of growth,
service and peaceful living. Martin Luther King was inspired by the
dream of social justice and we pray and work for this to come true.
Of course Martin
Luther King was not perfect. He was a sinner like all of us.
What is powerful about his
dream is the beneficial nature for other people. Not all dreams are
from God! Jeremiah warns us in 23:26-27, “How long? Will the hearts
of the prophets ever turn back – those who prophesy lies and who
prophesy the delusions of their own hearts? They plan to make my
people forget my name by their dreams that they tell one another.”
Human dreams can be filled with selfish ambitions of greed, ego
inflation, power and indulgence.
A vision for
my life as I age is Psalms 92:12-15, “The righteous flourish like
the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in
the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God. In old
age they still produce fruit; they are always green and full of sap,
showing that the Lord is upright.” My dream is to discover new ways
to be fruitful for our Lord in my senior years. With the Holy Spirit
guiding me age is not a limiting factor.
“Grow old
along with me, the best is yet to be, the last for which the first
was made.” Robert Browning. Do you have a dream?
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