Are You A Dreamer?

Do you dream? I'm not talking about while you are asleep, but rather dreams that you would consider plans or visions for the future. If we are not dreamers, then all is lost! The prophet Haggai has this to say about our visions. “Consider your ways! You have sown much and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages, earn wages to put into a bag with holes.” Haggai 1:5b-6 Basically the prophet is saying, even though many times we get what we want, we are never satisfied. Are you feeling that way today? If so, what is it going to take to fill you up?

Walt Disney was a remarkable man of vision. This is what we have been talking about in the last few lessons together – Vision! He never gave up. Early in his career a newspaper fired him because they thought he had “no good ideas”. Go figure! That just made Mr. Disney try harder. When he first started out he couldn't sell cartoons to anyone. Some hinted that he had no talent, but Walt Disney had a dream, therefore he set out to conquer his foes. He found a minister who paid him a small amount to draw advertising pictures for his church. Disney had no place to stay, so that church family let him sleep in the mouse-infested garage. One of those mice which Disney nicknamed, you guessed it, Mickey, became famous – as the world now knows. The early days were tough, but that remarkable, creative visionary refused to give up. Like Mr. Disney, we Christians need to dream big and trust in God for the impossible.

Do we have a vision for our church family? Do we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God is able to to the impossible? Jesus had a talk with the rich man and told His disciples that it was “easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” Matt. 19:24 The disciples then asked Jesus, “Who then can be saved?” But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matt. 19:26 Amen! 

 

Our God is the same God, therefore, we are in good hands, hands that will not let us down if our intents and desires are genuine and according to His will. We want our away members back because we know the destiny of their souls if they remain unfaithful. We also want to see new faces in our congregation because we also know of their fate if they remain in the world and outside of Christ. Both are good reasons, therefore we must wait on God and allow Him to work through our small number of able bodies to see this come to fruition. If we continue to plant and water, He will definitely give the increase! 1 Cor. 3:6

We are blessed to be called Christian and to know our eternal home is in heaven with our Lord Jesus and our heavenly Father. But we must have a plan for His church and we must all be willing to do our part to make it grow and prosper in our community. People's souls depend on our faithfulness to the call of the great commission. Are we doing our part? We know God is doing His. We need to have a vision and see it through the best we can.