Is anybody dreaming?

Corn pops taste better at 2:18am, they really do. They bring a soothing release to the inner tension that arises from the uncofmortable knowledge that you will not sleep anywhere near the length you shall wish tonight.

Is anyone out there living in the tension between the what is and what could be? Does anyone live with this deep seated unsettledness because we are missing something? Does anyone get frustrated because our world is on fire and everyone is sleeping? Does anyone dare to dream of what could be?

Dreamers got it rough. They see another world, a better world so clearly and vividly that its almost real. And they are so aware of the goodness of that world that it makes this world detestable, and yet this is the reality they live in. They see two worlds in total contrast.

I'm a bit of a dreamer. Was ever since I was young. But it caused me a lot of grief and so for a time I medicated that pain in many ways. All that did was render me more and more lethargic. The world sucks...so what? Christianity was a distant hope if any at all.

But God wouldn't let me be. He showed me what had become of myself and gave me the clarity of mind to understand that it was not a better way to live, and that things needed to change.

One year later, here I am.

I am still suffering from complacency (Oh God, how you HATE complacency!!!) but the more I think and hope for a world that WILL be, the more I feel the strain of our great fall, and the more I am groaning with all of creation for our restoration.

I hope that my generation will be the dreaming generation. I see so much medication going on all around me and its going to kill us all. The Kingdom that Jesus is at work establishing on earth is one of hope, joy, love, celebration, and peace. May we dream vividly of that kingdom and may our lives reflect this dream! Oh God that we would hold fast to the hope you have given us. We have been ransomed from the kingdom of death, and with our freedom bought with the blood of Christ we can live the dream of your kingdom in the harsh and cold reality we see around us today.

We can and we will.

And then the world will see.