Take a long hard look at your life. Is this where, as a child you dreamed of being? Is this the job you dreamed of doing? The house you dreamed of living in? As a child you had such big hopes and dreams, yet they have slowly faded away and until you picked this up. They were nothing more than a distant memory and had long been forgotten. But, you have again awakened these dreams and realize something. These dreams are still alive and well and they are things you still wish to accomplish.
So what happened? Why did you not chase these dreams originally, when you dreamed of becoming them as a child? And why as of right now you are thinking to yourself that even though these dreams are alive and well and would like to have them fulfilled in your life, that you feel as though this is all foolishness? Is it because you have been told that you cannot accomplish these things and because of this you believe that it cannot be done?
Were you one as a child that was told you could be anything you wanted to be? But, when the time came for you to become something, people told you that you should choose a job much more sensible? Do you not realize that they wanted you to live the same life they did? They gave you the same hopes and expectations they had experienced and took them away much the same way that their hopes and dreams had been taken away.
They want you, just like they felt they had to, to fit into a mould, their mould to be exact. They have told you ever since the time they felt you have been able to accomplish what is in your heart to do, that it is foolishness and you cannot accomplish it. They gave you excuses like, I don’t think that’s who you are, or I always saw you as something else. When really their opinion of what they felt you should be was irrelevant.
Besides, look at where their belief in what can be accomplished got them. Is that what you want, to be like them? No, of course not, you have your own dreams! Your own hopes and desires and things that you wish to accomplish. But, now you realize that you cannot accomplish your dreams. It’s too late, you feel. But, just think back for a minute. Even if you could go back to your childhood and try to bring your dreams to reality, could you? What steps would you take to bring these dreams to reality?
You haven’t the slightest idea, do you? You now begin to realize that those dreams you had were never in your capability to accomplish. So why did you dream those dreams? Why did you want those things to become your reality? Do you have answer?
What if I was to tell you that those dreams were put there by someone? Would you think this was foolishness? Yes, you would think of it as absurd. But, think now for a second, what you have you become? You have become just like the people who told you what you wanted to accomplish was foolishness. You are rationalizing according to what you have experienced. But has what you experienced, been the reality? Or is it the reality because that is what has been told to you, and you look at world through their eyes?
Maybe the secret then is actually believing in something that the world calls total “foolishness”. What if I was to tell you that there was a God who loved you, and had created you for a purpose? What if I was to tell you that those dreams you had were put in your heart by Him? Now you probably have question for me. Something like, if there is a God and people believe in Him, why aren’t they living there dream life?
Very simple, they believe in Him, but they never obey Him. See, when you accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, He comes and dwells on the inside of you. And all you have to do is listen to the still small voice. Outright foolishness you say? Well, just take a look at where the so called “intelligence” you have has got you. Not where you have dreamed of, and you just know that you know those “foolish” dreams are very real.
So, are you again going to walk away from your dreams again because of “foolishness”? Or are you going to do the most foolish thing you feel you have ever done, and watch your dream become a reality?
If you would like to have that life you have dreamed of all your life, just pray this simple prayer and obey the still small voice:
God in heaven,
I know I have not lived my life for you, but I would like to change that today. Today I confess that I believe in your Son Jesus, and that He died on the cross for me. I accept the free gift of life you have given through the blood that your Son Jesus shed, for all sin. I believe in my heart that you raised your Son from the dead and He lives. I ask you into my heart Jesus and make you my Lord and saviour. I thank-you for making me free and will live my life for you.
Joel 2:25:
25And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
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