Dreams… a page from God’s Scrapbook
It is 7: 30am on Sunday morning, and I am ready to head out to church. For some reason, I got ready earlier than usual, but as usual, I am preoccupied with God’s prophetic word to our church this morning. We are going through a series called “One Thing,” and I will be preaching on Psalm 62:10-12 this morning. We began this series because of the prophetic passage (Luke 10:38-42) that was given to our church at the Grace Retreat. The prophetic message is that God has called us into a season of one thing, just to sit at His feet and listen to Him. This word came to me while I was planning.. dreaming about “many things,” some out-of-the-box things that we could start in our ministry. It isn’t that God is not approving of these ideas, but that He is showing us the steps. He first wants us to adore Him, to know His heart, to be addicted to His Presence and abandoned to His praise. It is good to be led by the Lord.
This morning’s message is on the one thing that God has spoken and two things that David heard, that God is strong and God is loving. The question that is lingering in my mind is ‘why would God prepare us with these two truths about Himself?’ What is ahead of us that we need to be founded on God’s strength and His love? God is calling us to this One Thing, to sit at His feet and listen to Him, and One thing that He is saying to us and two things that we are hearing is that God is strong and He is loving.
When I connect the dots, I cannot help but to get excited/anxious/fearful of what is ahead of us corporately and personally. Could it be possible that all the visions and prophecies concerning our church and its missional calling in this region and the world are true? Could it be that the daydreams I was having during class last week were actually pages from God’s scrapbook?
Sweet thoughts. I also spend several moments a week thinking back to the many different interactions we’ve had w/ God, both personally and corporately, and can’t help but wonder where we might be headed.
To be honest many times I somehow convince myself that these dreams of ours are merely dreams w/o the real possibility of being birthed into actuality. But I pray that we keep on living by faith and not by sight. God IS preparing us and I’m just wanting to see myself being totally caught up by the One Thing. All these other great things will be “added on” soon enough.
Keep up the pursuit, my man. >:]
Hey P. Do, this is Joseph Kim. I enjoyed that One Thing sermon series, especially P. Dan’s because that day I was worried and in a bad mood. But then Dan showed me that no matter what, God always has a plan for us, that we just need to do that One thing and God will take care of us. I felt God during that time and I just thought that this was a good place to post it, perhaps I should’ve told P. Dan instead. But continue blogging P. Do you have one reader now hahaha
And I look forward to the new sermon series
PS: thats a nice photo of you and Noah