I judge a man by the way he handles himself, and you’ve been ridin’ for the brand. I ain’t interested in anything else.”
–Louis L’Amour (Riding For The Brand)
“The master was full of praise. ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. You have been faithful in handling this small amount, so now I will give you many more responsibilities. Let’s celebrate together!’”
–Matthew 25:21 (NLT)
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“By faith he [Moses] left Egypt behind, not being afraid of the king’s anger, for Moses persevered as one who sees Him wo is invisible.”
–Hebrews 11:27 (HCSB)
My pastor preached a very good message on “The Power of Being a Dreamer” last Sunday. Of course, the main character of his story was Joseph, but one time he did allude to Moses. I know in the last days the “old men will dream dreams.” Now, I am of the belief that these could be actual dreams while one sleeps. A word of warning here though, the dream may be from something you recently saw or read, or it may be from that anchovy pizza you had before going to bed. But also, a dream may be something that God has etched in your soul. Something real that will take place, someday.
One thing a dream will do is that it will change your life. A person with a dream will not be the same person he once was. That takes me to Moses. Somewhere he realized that a deliverer would come and take the people of Israel out of bondage. He saw, sensed, dreamed, that one day this would happen. Problem was at the time, he did not know or understand that he would be that deliverer; he would be the one to fulfill his dream. Moses left Egypt and was trained by God for forty years in the wilderness. What were his thoughts those forty years? Did he regret leaving what would have been his kingdom? Did he get depressed because his once lavish life had now turned to that of a shepherd? Or did the feeling that a deliverer would be sent to Israel? Did that ever leave his mind?
Then the day came–“Moses go deliver Israel!” The dream was now finally, after at least forty years, in the process of becoming a reality. He took hold of his dream, took the challenge and led the people out. He could have said anytime in his forty years in the wilderness that the dream was stupid, not real. Look at a couple of things my pastor said and then you see how they could be applied to Moses:
1) Sometimes you will be misunderstood because of your dream.
2) Dreams will motivate you, but realize that dreams do not come without problems.
Is God challenging you in the moments of your slumber? Is he in your quiet time putting thoughts, not only in your mind, but deep into your soul? Now the question is, what are you doing about them? One word of warning: be sure the dream lines up with Scripture. Once you are sure it does, then put some action behind what God is telling you.
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He died October 26, 1928, a graduate of Yale and two German universities. At those universities he saw that skepticism was being taught trying to turn people away from the Word of God. In response, Reuben Archer Torrey, spent his life destroying the skeptics. He wrote a series of booklets known as “The Fundamentals to Defend Basic Christian Doctrine”. His life, his preaching, and his message was always the affirmation that “this Book of the Word of him who cannot lie.”
“He who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.”
–James 1:6