I Have a Dream
We just celebrated Martin Luther King Day on January 19 th . I loved his iconic speech, “I have a dream.” ‘Dream’ stood out to me because everything I see around me is somebody’s dream. As people, we were created to dream and, if we look at the world we live in, we can see God's dreams.
The first book of the Bible, Genesis, gives the account of Creation including man; “In the beginning God created heaven and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. He called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day” (Genesis 1: 1-5). It goes on to describe the sky and earth, separation of the waters, vegetation, and so forth.
I see this as a dream, defined as God having a strong desired goal or purpose. There are times I look at the beauty of nature and say to myself, “God created that for me because He had me in mind when He created it all and He loves me beyond words.”
When it comes to you and me, we were created to dream. Dreaming has an essential role in developing our faith and helping us become the kind of person God has always intended us to be. There is a key between dreaming and believing, between our imagination and our growth. Without a dream we get stuck. But with God-inspired dreams we have almost limitless possibilities. We are created in God’s image (Genesis 1:27), with God’s ‘dream’ to bear His image on earth. God designed us with intelligence and the desire to live in relationship with Him and other human beings. We have value and worth, so let’s dream His dreams for us.
The first book of the Bible, Genesis, gives the account of Creation including man; “In the beginning God created heaven and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. He called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day” (Genesis 1: 1-5). It goes on to describe the sky and earth, separation of the waters, vegetation, and so forth.
I see this as a dream, defined as God having a strong desired goal or purpose. There are times I look at the beauty of nature and say to myself, “God created that for me because He had me in mind when He created it all and He loves me beyond words.”
When it comes to you and me, we were created to dream. Dreaming has an essential role in developing our faith and helping us become the kind of person God has always intended us to be. There is a key between dreaming and believing, between our imagination and our growth. Without a dream we get stuck. But with God-inspired dreams we have almost limitless possibilities. We are created in God’s image (Genesis 1:27), with God’s ‘dream’ to bear His image on earth. God designed us with intelligence and the desire to live in relationship with Him and other human beings. We have value and worth, so let’s dream His dreams for us.