Daring To Dream

It's time to rest. It's been a long day. You're finally home, the day was productive, clients are happy, the boss is happy, you are happy (you think), and as you glide through the motions of dinner, shower, and everything else you do to prepare for bed, you're thinking to yourself, everything is going well. Good job, good pay, good house, good this, good that........ you realize there's quite a lot to thank God for. As you give thanks, you suddenly get this sinking feeling, what impact does my life really have on this world?
Then you start to think, apart from the job, you have virtually no life. You live, breathe, eat the job. There's no time for relationships, no time for study, no time for much of anything else. Why? Because the world may stop if you slow down? Because you're so scared of how you would sustain your quality of life if you lost this job? Because the dreams you grew up with do not have the potential to make you as much money as this current job does? Because " A bird in hand is better than two in the bush"? Because, because, because...... So many becauses(Pardon my grammar), and yet you find yourself sinking into the gloom of despair and despondency 'cos, let's face it, your life doesn't amount to anything. It counts for nothing. Plain and simple.
I know of one other guy who's been there, done that, and got a few chapters of the Bible dedicated to him, to show for it. His name was Jacob. Yeah, that Jacob, the one called Israel later in life, the patriarch of Israel. The one who had 12 sons by 4 women. The one who served 14 years for a wife. The one who was duped into marrying two sisters when all he really wanted was the younger sister. The one whose wages was turned 3 times by his boss. The one who dared not go back home 'cos his twin brother had vowed to kill him. The one who was finally promised a wage of all the spotted and speckled offspring in the herd and then right before his eyes saw the same spotted and speckled herds led away, 3 days journey away to keep him from claiming the offspring. The one who was left to wonder how plain colored animals could pay him his wages of spotted and speckled offspring. My word, Jacob must have had a headache. He must have thought, as he watched the spotted and speckled herd been led away, " I am gonna remain Laban's servant forever. How on earth am i supposed to get paid now? This is just wrong! ".
So what did he do? He did the stupidest thing he possibly could have done. He slept. Why? Because he knew something we never really pay attention to. He knew that the answer to his situation didn't lie in worrying, crying nor human effort. He knew he needed something supernatural. He also knew he had a covenant of prosperity with God going for him, so he turned it over to God and slept off to show complete confidence in God's ability to turn the situation around. In other words, he "Dared To Dream". Today we all know what happened, plain colored animals gave birth to spotted and speckled offspring. Jacob dreamed, he saw it, he embraced, and took steps to make it work. And surely, because of the dream, Jacob was able to cast off his servant-hood in the house of Laban, and return home, wealthy and renowned.
Jacob dared to dream. What is that dream in your heart, that piece of God that is waiting for you to pay attention to it so it can raise you up, and make you fulfilled. What is that dream?
I say to you, we all have dreams, every single one of us, yeah, even you, yes you. The question is, What will you do with yours? I choose to follow my dream, everyday, and in every way i can, with this at the back of my mind, by salvation, i got the same covenant of prosperity Jacob had, and by faith, i trust God to give attention the the dream He gave me, to bring it to pass.
So i can go to sleep, for with God, i can dare to dream....