Surfing in God’s presence… How do we catch the wave every time?
How do I wake up every day on fire for Jesus?
How do we be Christians that are continuously full of life, joy and peace, that make people think, I wish I was that guy?
I had this dream in my mid twenties. I dreamt I was in a sandy desert at night. The sky was dark and starless. I turned left, to look around and saw a man with a staff in his left hand, dressed in white and beige robes, standing next to a small rock face. I then heard a voice from the sky say: “This is what I did for Moses.” Suddenly a wind blew the staff out of the man’s hand straight up into the air about 30 meters. The wind slowly eased its force and the staff slowly fell down. The man easily caught the staff. The voice from the sky then said: “this is what I will do for you.” The wind suddenly blew me straight up into the air, higher and higher, 100 meters, 200 meters, higher and higher. I began to think I was going to heaven and became excited. The wind blew me higher and higher, 300 meters, 400 meters. Higher and higher I went. The higher I went the more I thought I must really be going to heaven. Then I woke up. I knew the wind was the Holy Spirit.
The next day, I was thinking this it! I am going to be a mighty man of God! At the time I was too scared to share the dream with anyone. It was the last really awesome dream I have had. I am hoping that by sharing it now, I will again have cool dreams again. I must admit this dream did fill me with pride. But life continues, and so does sin. If anything I became more of a sinner since that dream. Years went by, and I forgot about the dream, just trying to survive and make enough money, not to live with my parents. One day I was reading the Bible in second Corinthians chapter three.
Are we once again bragging about ourselves? Do we need letters to you or from you to tell others about us? Some people do need letters that tell about them. But you are our letter, and you are in our hearts for everyone to read and understand. You are like a letter written by Christ and delivered by us. But you are not written with pen and ink or on tablets made of stone. You are written in our hearts by the Spirit of the living God. We are sure about all this. Christ makes us sure in the very presence of God. We don’t have the right to claim that we have done anything on our own. God gives us what it takes to do all that we do. He makes us worthy to be the servants of his new agreement that comes from the Holy Spirit and not from a written Law. After all, the Law brings death, but the Spirit brings life. The Law of Moses brought only the promise of death, even though it was carved on stones and given in a wonderful way. Still the Law made Moses’ face shine so brightly that the people of Israel could not look at it, even though it was a fading glory. So won’t the agreement that the Spirit brings to us be even more wonderful? If something that brings the death sentence is glorious, won’t something that makes us acceptable to God be even more glorious? In fact, the new agreement is so wonderful that the Law is no longer glorious at all. The Law was given with a glory that faded away. But the glory of the new agreement is much greater, because it will never fade away. This wonderful hope makes us feel like speaking freely. We are not like Moses. His face was shining, but he covered it to keep the people of Israel from seeing the brightness fade away. The people were stubborn, and something still keeps them from seeing the truth when the Law is read. Only Christ can take away the covering that keeps them from seeing. When the Law of Moses is read, they have their minds covered over with a covering that is removed only for those who turn to the Lord. The Lord and the Spirit are one and the same, and the Lord’s Spirit sets us free. So our faces are not covered. They show the bright glory of the Lord, as the Lord’s Spirit makes us more and more like our glorious Lord.
(2 Corinthians 3:1-18 CEV)
And it hit me that my dream was not about me, but about every Christian.
Still time went on and more and more sin and more and more failure and more and more years, until I can only say “amazing grace that saved a wretch like me”.
So here I am. I desire to live the dream, catch every wave, and be a bonfire for Jesus. Yet most days getting out of bed, is an answer to prayer. The cry: “There must be more than this!” The song: “I still have not found what I am looking for?”
The rebuke: “I came so that everyone would have life, and have it in its fullest.” (John 10:10 CEV)
Seeking The Path 