Dreams indeed are deceptive to many. Not all dreams come from the Lord and we need
to be careful about ascribing them to Him.
Prayer is always required when we believe that a dream has been given to
us, we need to seek wisdom from Him whether the dream is a word or sign or
whether it has come from the enemy. He counterfeits
the truth constantly in order that we might be carried away from our God-given
mission on a rabbit hunt. Care must
always be exercised when we have dreams that seem to be of the Lord. Many a leader has been enticed to make a
wrong decision based on their dreams or someone else's. All things must be submitted in prayer before
we take action.
Keep first things first.
CS Lewis wrote, " To sacrifice the greater good for the less and
then not to get the lesser good after all–that is the surprising folly. . .
Every preference of a small good to a great, or a partial good to a total good,
involves the loss of the small or partial good for which the sacrifice was made…
You can’t get second things by putting them first; you can get second things
only by putting first things first.” I
can't say it better. We need to know the
mission and keep our lives pointed in that direction. The man asks Jesus to divide his family's
inheritance with him, Jesus says that isn't a primary thing so He isn’t going
to get involved and the man needs to know it shouldn't be primary with him
either. We are simply to seek the
kingdom of God, period, full stop.
The beast rises from the sea and it has a mortal wound that
has been healed and the earth marvels that it has come back from the dead. Its reign is the same length as the woman's
sojourn in the wilderness, forty-two months.
The world, all except those whose names were long ago written in the Lamb's book of life, are deceived and follow
after the beast even though it spouts blasphemies against God. We make value judgments about blasphemy all
the time, we don't see that anything that attempts to diminish God or to put
Him and His Anointed on par with another, such as in a COEXIST bumper sticker,
is a foul blasphemy against the Lord. Any
false god raised up, false messiah, anything that claims equality or
superiority with the living God is blasphemy.
We live in a day and a place where there is much blasphemy, we do well to
be grieved over this situation. We have
a work to do, proclaiming the truth no matter the cost in life, limb or
repute. Let us not be deceived about who
our enemy is or about truth simply based on the offense taken by another. If we don't tell them the truth we have
failed to love both God and our neighbor.
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