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The Wedding Dream -
05-07-08, 05:09 PM
I believe that God speaks through dreams. He said that sons and daughters would prophesy, see visions and dream dreams in Joel. I think He gave me this dream (about 2 years ago) and it's still very clear today:
It was my wedding day. I was preparing, putting on the beautiful white dress. One problem: it didn't fit. For a normal bride, this is the time to freak out. I didn't, I stayed calm (which is not like me when it's crunch time). I don't know what I decided to do, because next thing I know, I am standing outside on the street with the knowledge that none of the guests are going to show up. This doesn't faze me, I immediately come to the conclusion that I need to find other guests. I start asking people on the street if they will come to my wedding with me. I didn't know any of them, they were all complete strangers, but I knew that I should not arrive by myself to the wedding.
I get to my car and there's a flat tire. Instead of being discouraged by all of this, we all jump into the back of someone's beat up old truck and begin driving to the wedding.
The wedding is outside of the city, and we are driving on a dirt road. I am in the back of the truck and it is filled with people. The dirt road becomes filled with big potholes and large rocks, trying to block us. We are able to drive and swerve around them. Then there is a huge tree blocking our way. We have to stop. We don't hesitate, we all get out of the truck and go to the tree and begin lifting it together to get it out of our path.When we finish that, we get back into the truck and keep driving down the road.
I woke up, never reaching the destination of the wedding, with a voice saying, "Ephesians 4:23"
I did not know that verse by heart at the time, but I looked it up immediately. It's between putting off the old self and putting on the new- be made new in the attitude of your minds.
It was immediately clear to me that this 'wedding' was for the church and Jesus. It was kind of similar to the parable Jesus said about the guests that were invited to the wedding did not show so the servants were instructed to grab people off of the street to fill the seats at the table (Matthew 22 22:1 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:
2 "The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.3 He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
4 "Then he sent some more servants and said, 'Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.'5 "But they paid no attention and went off--one to his field, another to his business.6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.7 The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.8 "Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.9 Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.'10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.)
Normally when I am rushed and things aren't going right (flat tires, last minute changes) I get cranky and frustrated. That never entered my attitude in the dream. I was a 'better me' so to speak. I think that because I represented the bride of Christ, I was having the Christian attitude, not my own. I also realized as I remembered the dream that the potholes, rocks and the tree were things that Satan was doing, trying to stop us from reaching the wedding. I came to the conclusion that God wants everybody- I need to talk to everyone about Jesus, not just those I think 'qualify' for salvation. Who am I to determine that? And yet I know I have spoken to some and been silent to others in the past just because I thought I could determine who deserves salvation. I also appreciate that when 'my car' was not functioning, we immediately found another route. This did not stop us from going. Don't let day to day frustrations stop your witness!!
I hope this encourages whoever reads it like it does me to remember it.
God bless
Remember that God thinks you're worth it!
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