God keeps telling me to stay on course. It’s something how we can be so sure of what God has called us to do until we get around others and see something different and then want to try what we see others doing instead of staying the course that God has set for us. That is the main temptation when God has us in a waiting pattern for something that he has promised us. The temptation is to do what has worked or seemed to work for others instead of what God is leading us to do for ourselves.
God recently gave me a dream heralding the same meaning that he has been trying to entrench into my spirit which is to stay the course or path that God has given me. It’s not always easy when your path seems so unique, but the truth is even though my path is unique, there are several others who God has placed on the same path. One of the major ways that Satan distracts us from walking the path God has for us is through making us think that we are the only one. Not true, we are not the only ones.
In the dream, I was walking to a specific destination on a bridge and I was almost there so much so that I could literally see my destination in front of me, but there were a few other people who came up from behind me and launched in front of me or at least seemed to launch in front of me, but when I focused in on what they were doing, they had crossed over a broken boundary rail that was separating those walking on the bridge that we were on from the water and ice beneath.
Those who had launched in front of me risked their lives of falling into the water and ice scaling and climbing the side of the bridge to get to the destination first. These were people who walked in their flesh and tried to make things happen on their own. They were still scaling on the side of the bridge as I watched and they appeared closer to the destination than I was, but their struggle was greater to make it there because of all of the additional acrobatics they put themselves through.
I thought to myself in the dream maybe I could get there quicker if I leaped ahead and jumped over the railing, but inside I knew that was not the way. I moved closer toward the edge where the broke down railing was and held on to the railing, but it was not as stable as it should have been.
In the meantime, a girl came up along side me and greeted me. I greeted her back and shared that I wasn’t really comfortable jumping the railing like the others. At that point, fish that looked beautiful almost like crystal-colored jumped out of the water toward me. Someone yelled those are Piranhas and at least three of them were near my clothing. I shook them off as I screamed and awakened.
Basically, that dream was a picture of how I had been feeling inside like I had been walking the path that God had for me, but others seemed to get to what I am believing God for quicker through their own means instead of doing things the way that God set out for them to do it. I was on a sure foundation and path through going about believing God his way. Sometimes doing things the way that God has given to you seems slow or like things will never change. Sometimes, we are tempted to move ahead of God because others seem so successful, but that isn’t what God is calling us to do.
I believe the young girl who came up beside me in the dream to greet me was a young lady sent to encourage me and who I was supposed to encourage and be an example to. Had I gone and did things in another way I would have confused her and myself and risked not reaching my destination at all or working much harder than God intended to get there. In the dream, my thoughts were to just keep on walking the way that I knew because I was so close to my destination and if I just continued to walk I was sure to get there. The piranhas in the dream were an attack of the enemy to get me discouraged and off track. Just as I shook them off in the dream, it’s the very same way that I need to shake off the discouragement of my flesh in real life staying focused on the path that God has set for me.
I found myself comparing my life to others in ways that seemed innocent thinking why don’t I have anyone to date or why don’t I have an intimate and close godly guy friend? Truthfully though, I don’t want to just date around. I don’t have time for that, and I know that isn’t the path that God has called me to. He has called me to be a specific woman about how I use my time to be constructive and build the kingdom of God and in doing so, The Lord is going to bless me with the appropriate gentlemen that I am to be with. God knows I am a 110% person often times and thus, it may be easy for me to lose focus with a godly brotha as my close friend who is mature and attractive. All snap!
Therefore, I have to fight those urges and nudges that seek my attention to get me distracted and off course. I have to realize that sometimes God says no now, so that he can say yes later to what he has been preparing me for all this time and that is his promise. If we stay on course we will find ourselves at the doorstep to the promises that God has placed in our lives and forget all of the pain and misunderstanding that we had to endure on the way there. Trust God, don’t look at others and stay on course.
I Consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. Romans 8:18
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