Dreams, Visions, and Promised Things

 

We all have desires, passions, and visions – dreams that God has placed within us.
But sometimes, when these dreams seem to be put on hold, we begin to doubt – and we begin to forget. We forget who God is and we forget what He is capable of. We forget what He has promised us and we forget what He has already done for us. We begin to lose hope.

Well maybe our dormant dreams are not actually dormant.
Maybe they are just helping us establish deeper roots.
Maybe they are meant to develop our trust in Him.
Maybe dormant dreams are meant to awaken our heart’s dormancy to what has been forgotten…

Here are some more thoughts:

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We all have visions, dreams, and goals.
Things we want to achieve, accomplish, and unfold.
Things God has called us to – the deep, the out-there, the unknown.
Our calling, our vocation, our roles –
It becomes a part of our person, our character, our soul.

We want to fulfill, to explore, and compose.
We want to see, to hear, and to know.
Yet sometimes life seems to go so slow.
Things get postponed and dreams become cold.
Things we love become colorless tones.

What happened to the first love, the big dreams, the open roads?
Has God forgotten the calling, the promises, the old?
Will these dreams ever become unfroze, these stories ever become told?
What’s the point of all this prose when sometimes words feel like cold coals?
Do they not become repetitive, mundane, verbose?

That’s why we sometimes feel the need to take control.
But what happened to faith? What happened to hope?
We don’t even have trust, for to trust would mean to give up control.
Yet what’s so bad about giving control to the One who knows the unknown?
We just can’t – it’s our selfish need, our insecure role.

Sure, nothing more enthuses,
Than dreams of which we wish to pursue.
But patience is such a virtue,
That we do just what we want to do.

We run with our emotions, our desires, our feelings,
As a result of our fear, the insecurities we are bleeding.
We want what we want and we want to be controlling.
We are such impatient selves, selfishly indulging.

We want to succeed and achieve – see our dreams become reality.
And control gives us that safety, certainty, and security.
So we rush into dreams prematurely.
But like cagelings hitting the ceiling,
We pursue aimlessly and chase empty feelings.

But when did dreams become about us, ourselves, and me?
For without God, who really are we?
Is it not He that has placed these dreams in our sea?
Then why do we ignore Him when we dream?
Why don’t we lean on Him in the unseen?

Dreams, visions, and promised things.
We can’t seem to surrender our everything.
We can’t give back to the Giver what He has been giving –
Dreams, visions, and promised things –
We can’t seem to surrender His due renderings.

Why?
Because we fear, we lose hope, and we try to take control.
But we forget.
We forget that our God is faithful.
He breathed our very existence – how could we be so ungrateful?
Is He not good?
Is He not able?
Is He not indelible?
Is He not faithful?

Yes.
Yes, He is.

Like the sun that forever burns
Are the promises of His word.
Void to Him they will never return,
For His faithfulness extends through the universe.

This love –
It is not something we deserve,
Not even something we earn.
We are not of worth.
We are but blurs in the photograph of amateurs.

But this God, this God that we serve.
He IS good, glorious, and of worth.
His love is undeserved.
His goodness is unreserved.
His promises can not be reversed.
They are faithful, true, and preserved.

His promise is a ring.
Faithful and devoted – like Him.
It brings hope for the future,
And new things that lie therein.
Just see it rising up in the spring.

So trust Him with your dreams,
No matter how long the journey may seem.
Because have you not seen?
He is proven a King –
Fulfiller of prophecy, visions, and ancient regimes.
Give Him your all and He’ll give you a ring.
Yes, faithful is He – King of all Kings.