Runnymede Christian Fellowship, a church in Egham

Week 28 - (09/07/2007)           What a dream

How do we like where we are in life? Do we love it? Do we hate it? Maybe we never think about it. Maybe we think about it all the time. Do we have a dream? Do we dare dream?  Some people think that everyone has a dream (many people do) - that each and every person deep inside has a yearning to do some great significant thing. Some people call it a destiny, a chosen path that we need to find in order to become all we were intended to be.

As for realizing those dreams or finding our destiny, some say that we can do anything, if we would only put our minds to it - that there's nothing we can't do, if we want it badly enough.

I don't know if that's how its portayed in the Old Testament, however. Were the Israelites stuck in oppressive bondage for all those years just because they all failed to want freedom badly enough? Then there was Moses. He was a man of destiny alright. How else can we explain his adoption by Pharaoh's daughter after being left in the Nile to die? We also know he was a man of destiny, because we know the rest of the story. It seems that he knew that he was a man of destiny early on. He had a dream of delivering his people from their bondage. But his dream became a nightmare when he killed an Egyptian, his people rejected his help, Pharaoh sought his life, and he ended up living forty years of his life as a fugitive in the wilderness.

Do you think he held on to his dream all those years? By the time God called him to the task, it doesn't look like it. He resisted the call of God, who had to persuade him to fulfill his destiny. This doesn't sound like the stuff of motivation seminars to me.

So if we have any sense of destiny, any sense of Gods calling, a dream to fulfill, explore it, fulfill it, trust God with it (our future)