Dream Carriers
You are a carrier of a dream. I may not know what your dream is. Maybe you don’t even know what your dream is. But I know God has given you one. It’s actually His dream for you. He has a dream for each one of His children. As one of God’s children you are highly favored by Him; in fact, there is a grace upon your life to bring His dream for to reality.
A dream is not just your imagination processing information when you’re asleep. You can have dream while awake. You can receive God’s dream via a prophetic word or vision that becomes planted in your heart. Sometimes during a season that produces angst in your life, God’s dream is revealed as you realize the very thing that’s working you over is part and parcel of your destiny. Whichever way the dream comes, it’s God’s way of communicating something of His purpose and His life, depositing it into your heart and imagination.
A dream is a time-released seed of eternity that’s planted in the temporary to bring about your destiny within the context of your history.
As you know, a seed contains DNA, and when it hits the right soil and environmental conditions, it becomes whatever it’s supposed to produce. An acorn grows into an oak tree; it can’t become an elm tree because it doesn’t contain the DNA for that. In the same way, a dream carries the heavenly DNA or God’s blueprint for your life. It’s a gift from God for you to become who He wants you to become, being and doing what He wants you to be and do.
The Process of Maturation
Our dreams must come to maturity. Maturity is the process of growth. It’s the process of achieving and becoming. Not only do our dreams need to mature, but you and I must mature with and for them. I’m reminded of Polaroid cameras that shoot out a photo that you and I watch develop before our eyes. Well, when you first see the photo come out, you see something chemical moving about without form. Once it’s gone through it’s two-minute-or-so process—voila!—there’s a complete portrait or landscape.
Sometimes I wish the process of maturation of both me and God’s dream for me would happen instantaneously. How about you? The truth is, however, it’s more like what the apostle James said when he was talking about the testing of our faith. He said, “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing” (James 1:2–4 ESV).
That testing James is talking about is like the photo process happening on the Polaroid photo. It must go on for a while in our lives. No quick turnaround times. No instant gratification. The testing of our faith in God to bring about the vision or dream He has placed in our hearts—and even the very dream itself—must have its “full effect.” Only then will the dream come into being. Only then will you and me and God’s dreams for us “be perfect and complete lacking in nothing.”
I want to encourage you today to embrace the process of maturation. I want to encourage you today—you dream carrier—to be steadfast, loyal, constant, patient, devout, true, and tenacious in the process, knowing that the Creator of the Universe put His DNA that will be realized in your life. He has every intention of seeing what He implanted into you in seed form come to pass, so let the testing have its work and full effect in you. Soon, your dream, like the Polaroid pic, will be in full view for you and those around you to enjoy.
