Title: The tension between dream and reality
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On August 28, 1963, at the Peace March in Washington to mark the centenary of the abolition of slavery, Martin Luther King delivered his dream of a future born of faith. Then, in August 2008, at the same place, a black politician announced his candidacy and was elected president last Tuesday. Many African Americans shed tears of joy as they embraced Martin Luther King's dream of equality as a moment to come true.
Dreams must be given by God. It must be a vision you have in God's will, and you must devote yourself to your dream so that God can make it come true. Because it is God who makes that dream come true. In other words, dreams and visions are fully realized by balancing the sovereignty of God, the recipient, and the response (obedience, responsibility) of the recipient, human.
Psalm 127:1 “Unless the Lord builds the house, the toil of those who build it
In vain, unless the LORD guards the city, the watchman
Rigidity is in vain.”
God gives everyone a dream. We exist to dream. Christians are people who live with future hopes (dreams). But this is different from human ambition. The holy dream that God gives is different for each age and for each person, and its ultimate purpose is to reveal the glory of God.
There are many cases in which our dreams cannot come true not because we do not have them, but because we do not respond properly to our dreams, and also because we do not discover the dreams that God has for us individually.
You will see that the dream is shown to those who pray, and it gives quick understanding to those who obey. There is no happier life than a life that fulfills the vision God has entrusted to you.