The other night we were talking about how everyone has dreams and God gives us those dreams for a reason. I have always wanted to travel the world and have always thought being a missionary would be fun but I never thought in a million years that I would be living my wildest dreams! Last year at this time I never would have guessed that a year later I would be driving around the side of a mountain in Nepal. We serve such a mighty and awesome God, and He gives us these amazing dreams that He will make possible for us if we just step out in faith and trust Him.
I’ve been reading Forgotten God by Francis Chan (I highly recommend you that read Crazy Love btw) and at one point Chan writes “And like our Savior, who poured out His life and blood so we have reason to rejoice, we were made to lay down our lives and give until it hurts. We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving of ourselves because we were made to do these things. It is when we live like this that the Spirit of God moves and acts in and through us in ways that on our own we are not capable of. This is our purpose of living. This is our hope.“
So many people are living their day to day lives wondering if there is more to life and feeling discontent. I used to feel the same way. But for the first time in my life I feel happy and content right where I am. I know this is where I am supposed to be, that God planned this before I was even born. I enjoy every minute and don’t want to take one second for granted. I haven’t been dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, but I’m happy and content in the moment. For all the people who live everyday lifeless wondering if there’s more, there is!
Think about the dreams that are in your heart. Maybe dreams that you haven’t thought about in a while because you think they will never actually happen. God gives us these amazing dreams and Satan comes and wants us to think that they’ll never happen. But that’s a lie! A few months before I found out about the world race I found myself thinking about my dreams and how they were just dreams that would never come true and it just made me really sad. Then I had a thought of when I went to heaven and God showed me the life I had lived. And it was just the boring always played it safe life that I had lived, and then He showed me the life that I could have lived if I had stepped out in faith and lived the God given dreams and it was an amazing, spirit led, passion filled life where I saw amazing things that I’d only dreamed of. God has plans for all of us and He gives us these dreams and visions along with the strength and courage to go after them.
