Ryan's Journal

Ok, I'm a sucker, I missed the daylight savings time thing today. I envy people in Indiana and reservations in Arizona who don't have to bother with 'losing' and 'gaining' an hour each day. I think I ranted on this earlier. Anyways, I was doing stuff and watching my non-computer clocks before I sat down at my main desktop and noticed the time was an hour later than I thought it was. Too late to get to church and hear the sermon. So instead, I bring you notes from a January 27, 2002, Cambridge Vineyard sermon entitled The Secret Behind Each Essential, third of six in a series on Essentials for 21st Century Living. Go check out their archive if you want to hear it. I'll buy the tape for this past Sunday at PT and catch up during the week.

Actually, there's just one thing Dave Schmelzer says (rather, quotes) that resonates. "We're not sure God's prescription is something we want to do... 'Here's a universal truth: God gives every single person ever born on earth dreams for their life. Powerful dreams for what's going to make their life happy, and how they hope it goes, and what they want to pursue - everybody. And here's why He does it: He does it because - well, like the dream is coming from this direction, and His will is coming from this other direction, and for awhile it's fine, but then they cross. Once they cross, the whole purpose of having dreams since we were kids is so we can give them up then... If you do that, if when God's actual desire for your life and your big personal dream you've had since you were two cross, and you give up the dream you've been holding onto since you were two, for God's actual will for your life, even though it feels like death to do it - He will always give you that dream back in a better form. And if you don't give it up, the dream itself will turn sour. The reason God gives us dreams at all is so we can lay them down at His feet.'"

There's no scripture there, but I think if you read the accounts of Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph, and even Jesus Himself, you'll find it there. This concept that God is bigger than our biggest dreams and can do more for us than we could do for ourselves - I think He wants every one of us to realize it. "Though it feels like death to do it..."

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