November 17, 2004
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Dare to Dream
Tonight my mom and dad were scheduled to have dinner with Larry & Brenda. (L & B are Navigator staff who have been spiritual mentors/disciplers in my life since my freshman year in college.) It totally floors me that Larry & Brenda have won them over so well that my dad would be willing to go to their home. Just three months ago, he “politely” refused their invitation and was suspicious of them (“they can’t really be this nice.”). In dining with these missionaries, my dad has come a long way since the days of refusing to allow me to go to church – how amazing! God is really doing something here!
See, when we talk about praying about “big things,” I think of my parents’ salvation. For them to make a decision to follow Jesus would be absolutely beyond what I could imagine really happening.
However, the Ephesians passage speaks of God being ABLE to do immeasurably (you can’t measure it!) more than ALL we ask or imagine… this Truth seems to me to be saying, “I dare you to dream!” God, in essence, says, “I dare you, and I’ll answer.”
Sometimes I don’t dare to dream. Having my parents “just barely” accept Christ seems like asking God too much already… but to imagine them to have a real, personal, life-transforming relationship with Jesus would be over the top… and even further, for them to happily support and send me off on missions or even to GO WITH ME… now THAT would be absolutely unimaginable. But if I would dare to dream, that’s what I would dream…
and you know what? It’s okay for me to daydream and envision something that unimaginable. I don’t have to check myself or “snap back to reality” (as I found myself doing this morning when I daydreamed about them going on missions with me) — because it is God - yes, the God of the impossible – who has dared me to dream in the first place. Isn’t that amazing?
If you were to dare to dream the impossible, what would that look like? Do you dare?
Comments (1)
yay for your parents! “Do you dare?” i’m trying!