God is always on the move. He created us to
have goals and dreams, to be reaching for more in our life in Christ. When God
gives you a dream, it's like becoming pregnant: you conceive (think or imagine)
a vision of the "new thing" He's planned for you. Now you have to make it through the pregnancy and get
to full-term to birth the fulfillment of it (Isaiah 43:18-19).
So often our
dreams are about us—what we want for our life or what's good for us. But Jesus,
our example of how to live, gave His life not for His benefit but for ours.
Shortly before He was crucified, He was in a garden praying and He said, Not My
will but Yours be done (see Luke
22). He came from the
glory of heaven to earth to give us life. Everything He did was for us.
To really live
the dream God has for us, we need to let go of selfishness, or "die to
self." What are some things we must die to? Things like our plan, our
timing, our way, our reputation, getting credit for what we do, the need to be
in control and the need to be right.
If you will
give your life to God like Christ laid down His life for you, God will do
amazing things in you and through you. It's not easy but the reward on the
other side is so worth it—the fulfillment of your God-given dream!
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