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PHOTO: What can become of a dream?
Dreams: Guarded Vs. Discarded
The manger didn’t fulfill the richest and deepest desire of Christ:
“I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me. “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.” (John 17:21 NLT)
Each of us have dreams and promises that we keep close to the vest. If we are daring, we’ll share these intimacies with a trusted one. But many times, it’s either so deep and clear or close-but-nebulous that it ends up being guarded. But it must not be discarded.
Christmas was only the beginning. Mary pondered because it is difficult to see a dream in a newborn’s face. Vision and desire, like a baby, take a lifetime to grow.
But Christmas was the earthly birth of this elaborate conspiracy to bring people and God together in a way that is beyond imagination.
If there is something that burns within you, it may be fine if you don’t see it accomplished in your lifetime. But it is not O.K. if you don’t light the flame of its conception. David designed and invested in a temple but never saw it constructed.
Birth and legacy are closely tied together. We may get the dream to first base and a descendent we may or will never meet this side of heaven may get the dream to home plate.
PORTAL TO HEAVEN: A multitude of generations have lived since that first Christmas and yet we can see by divisions and sin that Jesus’ mission is still in process…through us.
While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work…These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect…“Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.
John 9:4 NIV, Hebrews 11:39,40 NIV, Habakkuk 2:2,3 NIV
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