Edition 2 of the End of the World Dream

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Edition 2 of the End of the World Dream

The three things:

1. Is there a fact to believe here?
2. Is there a promise to trust?
3. Is there a command to obey?

OK, I have had some thought into this whole thing. A lot of prayer and some side discussions with friends and some research into dream interpretations (which that really got me nowhere)… and what is my conclusion? Well, not much. Now the first edition of this was back on November 21st, a month ago… (I didn’t wait a month on this on purpose, it just happened to fall that way), and a few things I realized: 1) My dream COULD be about the end of the world, but I do not know for sure, simply because there was no Jesus coming back, no angels, no sky opening up and fire reigning down, that sort of thing… I made that assumption based on the events in the dream. 2) Dreams, I personally believe, of this nature are meant as a sense of motivation. A dream of such caliber and exact in nature from the previous dream I had can simply be to motivate me to: a) do the right thing, b) motivate me to prepare for such a day, and c) help others if such an occurrence should happen. With the reoccurring dreams that I have had in the past, which honestly don’t happen often (a handful in my lifetime thus far), the do come true, but not always immediately. In fact, I don’t remember one happening within even a number of months of the dream. I have tried to reason with myself as simply ignore it, but I almost think it would be foolish to do so… and what is wrong with preparing for a huge catastrophe?

Now, I am going to check out the three things:

Doing the right thing: I don’t really think I need to go into this with scripture… why would God want me to do anything less than what is right? Romans 7, though, does place the whole thing into perspective, though. Verse 11 says 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. Sin does everything to seize the opportunity given it. Sin is going to see that I am trying to do the right thing, and do everything to sabotage every effort. Verse 21 goes on to say 21 So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. The struggle within me… what am I to do, well, take the road less traveled. The narrow road, which is straight, has a little gate, and probably rusty from lack of use. When I go to work, I prefer the highway, more cars but the guarantee to get to work on time is very good… the back roads tend to have less cars, less chance of accidents (and if a car hit another car intentionally, would that be called a purpose?), and generally the same amount of time to get there depending on the distance of travel. But when the sinful nature hits, it’s telling me to take the highway where everyone is at… but to get where God wants me to go, I should take the back road. And even if I give into the temptation, hop on the highway, my rescuer is there to gear me back on track: 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So, I guess I will work more on this in the next few days. I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday. This will be the first for me as a father… exciting to say the least… Johnny Out.