Why Have You Stopped Dreaming?
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Why is it that the disappointments of life steal the raw pleasure of outrageous and hopeful expectation from the human soul? "... one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 3:13-14). It's time to look forward to all that God desires to do in you and through you whether you
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have one day of life remaining or 40 years of life still to be relished! Dreams were never intended to be the playground of only the young but the dreaming of dreams and the capacity to embrace vision has been given to all of humanity, whether young or old, as a life-long gift from the Father of all eternity.
Perhaps tragedy or disappointment has caused your soul to petrify with no desire to look ahead or to dream about tomorrow. Perhaps the reality of living in the "same old ... same old" for too many years has pick-pocketed your youthful hopes and childhood enthusiasm. If you do nothing else today, take the advice of Paul and simply "forget those things which are behind." Forget the failures and the disappointments. Forget the years of famine and of dryness. Forget the criticism and the pain. You see, forgetting about the past always precedes reaching forward to what lies ahead. If you are stuck in regret and in backward thinking, you will never dream another dream or set another goal."Do not remember the former things nor consider the things of old. See, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not be aware of it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert" (Isaiah 43:18-19)
The ability to hope always begins with the commitment to ponder the past no longer. The day has come to resolutely determine that the past holds no enticement for our thought life or for our emotions.
God, the greatest Father in all of eternity past or all of eternity yet to come, never intended for the dreaming of dreams to be the nutrition of childhood. This is a season when the elderly are called to dream with enthusiasm and with wisdom. Today is the day for you to rise up with purpose and with strength, as God's grace and power permeates every area of your life!
Perhaps tragedy or disappointment has caused your soul to petrify with no desire to look ahead or to dream about tomorrow. Perhaps the reality of living in the "same old ... same old" for too many years has pick-pocketed your youthful hopes and childhood enthusiasm. If you do nothing else today, take the advice of Paul and simply "forget those things which are behind." Forget the failures and the disappointments. Forget the years of famine and of dryness. Forget the criticism and the pain. You see, forgetting about the past always precedes reaching forward to what lies ahead. If you are stuck in regret and in backward thinking, you will never dream another dream or set another goal."Do not remember the former things nor consider the things of old. See, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not be aware of it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert" (Isaiah 43:18-19)
The ability to hope always begins with the commitment to ponder the past no longer. The day has come to resolutely determine that the past holds no enticement for our thought life or for our emotions.
God, the greatest Father in all of eternity past or all of eternity yet to come, never intended for the dreaming of dreams to be the nutrition of childhood. This is a season when the elderly are called to dream with enthusiasm and with wisdom. Today is the day for you to rise up with purpose and with strength, as God's grace and power permeates every area of your life!