I want to use Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost for His Highest" again today because it goes right along with wha
we looked at yesterday!
The Initiative Against Dreaming
Arise, let us go hence. — John 14:31
Dreaming about a thing in order
to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is
wrong. After Our Lord had said those wonderful things to His disciples, we
might have expected that He would tell them to go away and meditate over them
all; but Our Lord never allowed “mooning” When we are getting into contact with
God in order to find out what He wants, dreaming is right; but when we are
inclined to spend our time in dreaming over what we have been told to do, it is
a bad thing and God’s blessing is never on it. God’s initiative is always in
the nature of a stab against this kind of dreaming, the stab that bids us
“neither sit nor stand but go.”
If we are quietly waiting before
God and He has said – “Come ye yourselves apart,” then that is meditation
before God in order to get at the line He wants; but always beware of giving
over to mere dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave Him to be the source of
all your dreams and joys and delights, and go out and obey what He has said. If
you are in love, you do not sit down and dream about the one you love all the
time, you go and do something for him; and that is what Jesus Christ expects us
to do. Dreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.
AMEN! DARE to DREAM! And DREAM BIG, because we have a GREAT, BIG GOD Who delights in us asking and depending on HIM! Amen! Here is Hillsong with "GO":Shalom in Him!
