Lets Dream Together........

Dreams  sustain us and give us hope  for the future

Take a moment to consider what dreams you are holding on to today........

Where did these dreams come from?   

We can think of many major dreamers throughout history...

...Martin Luther King...........  1963....... A dream of freedom .....     let freedom reign.....all men are created equal.....

I have a dream today!

"we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."

"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream." 

Mother Teresa

"We can do no great things only small things with great love

If you can’t feed a hundred people then feed just one."

Nelson Mandela

” I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

I am challenged as I think on these dreams of such high standing, they are dreams that are not simply reaching for simple solutions, but dreams that reach into the depth of mankind and seek to release the heart of God into society..... dreams of freedom, equality and Love.

What of my dreams, are they dreams that have been shaped and moulded by our culture and our society?   Are my dreams dreams ones that bring freedom, love and equality, dreams that seek to see the kingdom of God increase?     

Dreamers seeking for the establishment of Gods Kingdom here on earth, some would say that these dreamers, are idealists, having their minds drenched in unreality....... however what reality would we see...??

God has a dream...

Desmond Tutu says- "God says to you, 'I have a dream. Please help me to realize it.’ It is a dream of a world whose ugliness and squalor and poverty, its war and hostility, its greed and harsh competitiveness, its alienation and disharmony are changed into their glorious counterparts."

Will we let go of our own dreams to give ourselves for the bigger picture... the bringing about of His dream......?

We read of Joseph the dreamer on the Old Testament...

His dream took a life time to come to pass.....

before he saw the dream in reality, he experienced life in the pit and in the prison, far away from the reality of that dream.

What do we dream of?   

What about the dreams that still have not happened....?  I am reminded of the words in the song....

I dreamed a dream in time gone by

When hope was high and life worth living

I dreamed that love would never die

I dreamed that God would be forgiving

But the tigers come at night

With their voices soft as thunder

As they turn your hope apart

As they turn your dreams to shame

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed 

Life can be hard.... we can find ourselves in what looks like a pit or a prison, it can appear as though the dream has been robbed from us, we can become  too disappointed to continue to pursue the dream......

We have to remind ourselves of the folk mentioned above, much heartache went into the realisation of their dreams, but they did all come to pass.

We should stir up our hope and live in that hope daily.

Some of our dreams have been coloured by the culture of our day.....   we need ... a God dream......   

In the day when hierarchy was seen as the pinacle we dreamed of gaining position.... 

In our day church was the pinacle and we have sought position in the church

Today the day in which we live is a kingdom day a day where the body is coming into maturity......

Dreams may change....... as we see differently....

Our dreams that have been shaped and moulded by our culture and our society?   We can keep a check on our dreams, are our dreams ones that bring freedom or do they in fact box me into a  paradigm?    

Lets dream again.... a great big God dream......

"God says to you, 'I have a dream. Please help me to realize it.’ It is a dream of a world whose ugliness and squalor and poverty, its war and hostility, its greed and harsh competitiveness, its alienation and disharmony are changed into their glorious counterparts."