Last night I had a dream, can I share it with you?
In the dream I was preparing to go on a hike and somehow I knew that it was going to be strenuous, demanding, exhausting- that I was going to get dirty.
I was getting all the things together like a jacket and water but for some reason my footwear of choice were my slippers.
What?
So I begin the hike, just walking down the little path through the woods and everything seems to be going well.
Until, sticks start cutting me through my slippers because they are thin and provide zero protection.
I feel the hardness and pain of every rock!
I step in a mud puddle and my slippers are now soaking wet, so all the dirt and leaves on the ground are clinging to my slippers with every step.
I remember being bitter because I couldn’t go as far as I wanted to in my slippers and I couldn’t climb any trees on my hike.
Then I woke up
I was praying and thinking about that dream and realized that I feel unprepared for what’s coming up in life, I have been learning a lot about who I am and my identity in Christ and there are times I just doubt it. I just want to go back to where I came from and be there with people that know me and be in that cozy corner.
But what God was telling me through this dream was “comfy things don’t equip us well”.
Like in my dream, I may have been more comfortable in my slippers than any other shoes but I couldn’t do the hike well- I was wanting my comfort to take me further than it was ever intended for.
Comfort isn’t a bad thing, but when those are the only shoes you ever wear you’ll never go anywhere.
“For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.”
-Isaiah 43:19 (NLT)
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