God invented dreaming, and we are created in His image, so what does that tell us about how we’re designed to live? You and I are designed to dream. In fact, dreaming and doing are the only ways to a truly fulfilling life. Your life is part of God’s dream. As recorded in Genesis, God had His dream of creation—the heavens, the earth, and you. And then He spoke it to ignite the dream into reality: “Let there be light!” And think about it, one of the most amazing truths about this wonderful dream of God is that He was delighted. He called it good.
A big reason why people don’t dream is that they don’t realize they are God’s dream. Many don’t know why they were born. Most people have never asked God, the Creator, why they were born, so they’re not dreaming the dreams He has for them. They’re merely dreaming human dreams. Jeremiah 1:4-5 declares: “Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.’” Not only are you His dream, He sees plans and potential for you, which the prophet also wrote in Jeremiah 29:11. “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” The first mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, knew I liked the book of Jeremiah because I used to quote verses to him. So, he asked me if I had ever visited Jeremiah’s Grotto. I told him no. He pulled out the plans and took me in his car to Jeremiah’s Cave. This was the spot where Jeremiah lived and prophesied from. Jeremiah had a very difficult assignment. He was criticized and mocked. and yet he stayed faithful to his call. When I saw the cave, tears streamed down my face, because it has a new name now, it’s called Golgotha. That was the spot where Jeremiah was assigned—and where heaven and earth met. You never know the significance of the call of God in your life and the fruit of what you’re doing, but you’ve got to be faithful. God is a good God. This was difficult for me to understand because my father was not good. The only thing I knew about my earthly father was judgment. He only cursed me. He never blessed me, so it took me a long time before I could see God as a good father and understand grace, His unconditional love. When I did, everything changed.
