Young

When we are young we have dreams. Some of those dreams are way too big for anyone but others are achievable. Some dreams don’t take into account our abilities, social restrictions or other boundaries that will exist when we grow up.

Even as parents we can form dreams for our children when they are too young to for us to know and understand their likes, dislikes and personalities.

Some people will say that if you have a dream it is possible. They’ll tell you that the only thing stopping you is hard work and your vision. The thing is of course that there have been some very normal assumptions made here. The first is that your dreams are legal. I have heard some rather dubious dreams at times. The next one is that you will have the ability to do what your dreams require, after all, to use something I heard the other day; a fish will have trouble climbing a tree.

Recently I heard a hymn that I had not heard before and one line stuck in my mind. It went something along of the lines of; thank you for the prayers you granted and the ones that you didn’t. So often we think we would like something, we think it will be good for us but God knows different.

A Songs of Praise programme recently talked about how three people succumbed to various temptations and how their lives were destoryed. Not all these temptations were bad things in themselves; they were just the wrong thing to control their lives.

There is one assumption about dreams that is very rarely made by most people and that is: “is it the dream that God has for you” I’m remembering George Muller who wanted to go to China to be a missionary but God wanted him to go to Bristol to look after children. He did eventually go to China but as I understand it was not as a missionary.

I Corinthians 2:9 says “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” And sometimes that takes us to places we never dreamed of.