A few weeks ago Matt, a member of the January squad, joined us in hopes of raising up strong and passionate worship leaders in our squad. Throughout the course of the past few weeks I’ve been able to sit down and talk with him, listening to his stories and gaining wisdom from his insights. During one of our conversations he asked me a relatively straight forward question that has provoked hours and hours of pondering
and wondering.
“What are your dreams in life?”… easy enough, having answered that one before I quickly rattled off the same rehearsed answer I’ve given for years – My dream job is to be a National Geographic photographer who gets to travel the world photographing the diverse cultures and people that have intrigued me for so long. And just for fun, my secret dream job (the outrageous one that has no chance of ever coming to fruition) is to be an undercover agent, a spy of sorts – I’ve given this answer so many times that it flowed off my tongue and out of my mouth effortlessly. My surface answer didn’t lead to any interesting conversation so we soon moved on to a different topic. Yet, hours later I returned to the question, this time with much more interest and thought.
When I actually thought about it I realized I didn’t really want to be a spy and although I wouldn’t mind being a professional photographer, it wasn’t as appealing as it once was. This realization lead to numerous questions I hadn’t thought about in quite some time… What are my dreams? What are my goals in life? My aspirations? My hopes for the future? I sat for a long time thinking, going over past ideas in my head, but I came up empty handed. All I knew was that I wanted to follow God. I didn’t know what He had in store for me, but I wasn’t really worried about it.
Now, a week after my pondering session, God has been answering my questions, revealing bits and pieces of his dreams and desires for my life. It’s amazing how much more excited I am about God’s dreams than I ever was about my own, I’m even getting chills every time I think about them. Although nothing is set in stone and I know God will continue to mold and shape my future, it’s comforting to know that He knows me, knows my desires, knows my personality, knows my abilities, knows my potential, and takes it all into consideration when planning my future. He has my best interest at heart and His plans will turn out better than mine ever could.
I encourage you to do likewise… give God your dreams, aspirations, and goals, letting him take them, reform them, and give them back to you greater than ever could have imagined. I promise you won’t be disappointed.
