PURSUE YOUR UNIQUE DREAM

PURSUE YOUR UNIQUE DREAM

Faith is a profoundly personal and powerful commodity.  As such, it should always be grounded in God’s Word, i.e. it must be based upon what The Creator has purposefully spoken and seeded within, not on the outside limiting opinions of others.  After all, only The Manufacturer is in position to reveal the ultimate purpose of whatever He has created.  So throughout our lives, despite adverse circumstances or setbacks, we must have an inner knowing and a supreme confidence that whatever GOD has spoken over us will ultimately come to pass.  To assure that his God-given vision would be both reflected on and remembered, God instructed the prophet Habakkuk to “write the vision, and make it plain…that he may run that readeth it.” (Habakkuk 2:2)  It is of strategic importance to record your dream…and to share it with faith-filled dreamers.

Kingdom Principle Number One: YOUR LIFE-VISION IS FOR AN APPOINTED TIME.  The fulfillment of your dream will manifest at the intersection of chronos (man’s time) and kairos (God’s time).  According to David, a blessed wo/man “brings forth fruit in his/her season.” (Psalm 1:3)  Please do not allow impatience or frustration to abort either the vision or the actualization of Heaven’s earthly dream about you.

Kingdom Principle Number Two: YOUR LIFE-VISION MUST BE A TRUE REFLECTION OF GOD’S WORD.  Whatever the Holy Spirit seems to have communicated during your private time of prayer and devotions must be carefully confirmed and authenticated in the Word.  If there is any contradiction at all, you must revisit and reconfigure your dream.  If it is of God, it will surely stand the tests of time and trouble; if not…well you already know.

Kingdom Principle Number Three: YOUR LIFE-VISION WILL SURELY COME TO PASS.  It might be somewhat cliché, but it is unquestionable truth: ‘Delayed does not mean denied.’  Jesus Christ advised, “In your patience, possess ye your souls.” (Luke 21:19)  God’s admonition to Habakkuk is confirmation: “For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come, it will not tarry.” (Habakkuk 2:3)

So sisters and brothers…never be afraid or hesitant to become dreamers…doers…pioneers…trailblazers.  Why?  Since God is the epitome of creativity, He forges and fosters individualized plans and pathways for all His children.  There is nothing in the Kingdom of God that we should liken to a cookie-cutter approach.  In fact, we are as unique as snowflakes; no two of us carry exactly the same marks or mission.  Although we all must submit to One Lord, subscribe to One Faith, and drink of One Baptism (Ephesians 4:5), GOD has sown an endless array of variety into His world – and into us.  Bottom-line: The Lord of Life wants to use you and I in imaginative and particular ways.  So we are obliged to keep on dreaming – to keep on reaching – even when others cannot perceive or receive the magnitude of our life-visions.

The infinite diversity of our dreams reminds me of the moth who fell in love with a star.  All his friends and relatives mocked him.  Every day, they told him he was being totally unrealistic, and urged him to focus his efforts on some local, possible, attainable goal: a street lamp, a porch light, a candle, a lantern, or even a chandelier, if he must.  But our moth was truly in love with his star, and he steadfastly refused to give up.  Unfortunately, his pals, parents, sisters, brothers and cousins soon burned themselves out swarming around those local, readily accessible luminaries, and wound up as charred bits of ash on sidewalks, porches, tables and floors.  But our moth enjoyed a lengthy, happy and healthy life in endless pursuit of his distant star.  In some sense, the journey is just as important as the destination.  Small goals can sometimes be more detrimental and risky than more expansive ones.  So go for it!  Never listen to the negative voices (without or within) that affirm doubt, delay or denial of anything that GOD has ever spoken.  Be continually blessed!