I’ve been reading this book “You’re made for a God-sized Dream” by Holley Gerth. First of all, a God-sized dream doesn’t have to be large in the world’s eyes. A God-sized dream is one that stems from the desires He has placed within the dreamer. It could be being a parent or a spouse, or it could be traveling to 11 countries in 11 months to serve others. There are two things all God-sized dreams have in common. A God-sized dream brings the dreamer closer and into a more intimate relationship with God and a God-sized dream loves other people. That’s it.
Easy-peasy.
There is so much injustice in the world – so much hurt. God has equipped many people with the ability to stand up and fight for the weak and oppressed. And yet, so many people that don’t because of fear.
“All the king’s servants and the people of the kings provinces know
that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called,
there is but one law- to be put to death,
except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live.
But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”
Esther 4:11
What if I told you, that you and I, were made to take a stance against the injustices that break, tear and ruin our hearts? What would be the response? Would it be Esther’s first response to Mordecai’s plea for her to appeal to King Ahasuerus to end the genocide of her people – a denial to stand against injustice for fear?
“For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come from another place,
but you and your father’s house will perish.
And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Esther 4:14
If a dreamer stays quiet and refuses the call, someone else may step up to address the issue, but then world will never see the unique legacies that only the dreamer was built to leave. The dreamer will have become nothing. The world – the hurting, abused and enslaved, they will never experience or see the light the dreamer was made to shine.
All because we were afraid to step out in boldness and faith. Because all we saw were our weaknesses, this world’s obstacles, and how the combination of the two seem like a recipe for failure. Because we stand in fear, instead of in the faithfulness of God and the freedom He has given us to live an abundant life.
“I will go to the king, even though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”
Esther 4:16
Oh, if every dreamer had Esther’s courage. That if she’s going to perish, she’s going to perish not in silence but in boldness and faith.
Silence is not a response I’m willing to choose. I don’t know what God’s going to do with my dream. I don’t know how he’s going to transform and morph it. But I pray with everything I have that He turns it into something beautiful. Something that changes lives. Something that leaves behind not my own legacy, but the legacy of the house of my Father. The legacy of the Kingdom of God.
This race is not the end all be all of my life, and it’s certainly not the beginning either. I’ve seen God plant the seeds of my God-sized dream even before I chose to follow Christ. I’ve seen how He has already begun to transform it to fit His kingdom better, and I can only imagine how this next step is going to bring it to even more maturation.
I would love to share more with you about my God-sized dream. Please feel free to contact me so that you can travel further into it and become an even bigger part of it with me.
