I had a dream this morning! This dream did not tell me of events to come, rather it gave me a principle about modern-day events and why we see the destruction of families in our day.
In the dream my husband and I were in a man's house, we had come for a visit. The man and his wife knew my husband and I were coming. Because of the contempt of the wife for us, she left before we arrived.
The man we came to visit didn't offer us any refreshments or fondly greet us. I asked him where his wife was and he refused an answer by saying; "she left for the day."
While we were visiting their home I saw that the ceilings were falling down, the stairs were in serious disrepair and the walls were being torn apart. This didn't make sense to me because only a few years ago this home was brand new. In the house when it was built there were elegant high-quality fixtures. Special cupboards and beautiful flooring everywhere. And, yet the house, only a few years later was in terrible disrepair as though something devastating had happened to it.
"Was there an earthquake, a flood, a tornado that came through and did all this damage?" I thought.
Because of the disrespect, I felt from the man in the house, the lack of hospitality, and the contentiousness I decided I was going to leave and never return.
In my dream I was thinking to myself; "how could such a wonderful house be in such wreckage in just a few years. How could a woman expecting guests just leave knowing we were coming and how could the man endorse what she did as well as act in a similar disrespectful manner?"
In the dream, I left the house feeling a strong bitterness and hatred on the part of the man and his wife without the ability to figure out why!
In the dream there was no sense of the man desiring to talk things through or work things out, it was clear his hatred and the hatred of his wife would not allow for the resolving of a problem, they were enjoying their contempt toward us.
Upon awakening, I was left with a pit in my stomach and a sense of spiritual ugliness. I asked the Lord if the dream had any message for me, it was clear His answer was "yes", it is full of meaning.
The dream was not about events that have happened or were to come, the dream was a message of the spiritual state of our world today.
Women have left the home to engage in selfish pursuits and the men do not care that they have left. The wreckage of the house represented how the family and the home is deteriorating to such a degree that no one can live in this broken-down mess without serious reconstruction, but the reconstruction of the family never comes, it just gets worse.
The dream was showing us the degradation of not only the family but all relationships. There are few people left who understand kindness, love, gentleness and all the rest of the fruit of the Spirit of God.
Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
The present generation has been so indoctrinated to think of self almost exclusively that they are angry at any suggestion that they are in need of learning manners or respect. They rage at any suggestion that they might need instruction.
There are few people in our children's generation who know what respect and honor look like. They react with snappishness when they are corrected and because they think they are right they are not ashamed when they treat someone disrespectfully.
Here is the problem: We are living in a world of "Christians" who have never been born again but think they are saved.
1 John 4:8
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Matthew 7:21-23 "21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
These false Christians will think their good works (that is not robbing or killing) will save them but do not concern themselves with respect for God or others. As long as they believe in their own mind they are good, they do not bother with prayer, reading of His Word, and humble repentance.
May those who have been living a cultural Christianity become ashamed and repentant so that they can become born again. May they realize they do not have a walk with Christ and must repent and trust in Him to be born again. The person who does this will have a completely changed attitude with conspicuous actions that show a turn about has happened.
They did not turn themselves around, they repented, trusted Christ and it was Christ Who changed them when they become born again.
2 Corinthians 5:16-18 "…16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:…"
When someone has been changed by Christ all those who knew them before they were changed can see a dramatic difference in the way they think thus in the way they act. They don't have to try to act kind, because their soul is kind without having to try.
When someone is acting a role to be accepted that role is easily discarded when a little controversy arises. A kind person is kind all the time to everyone, they do not play favorites, treating some people better than others. Kindness is in every part of their being all the time, they act this way just as they breathe without thinking because it is who they are inside.
Kindness is such a part of the born-again believer that it doesn't even enter their mind to be mean or snappish, it is not who they are through and through. If the thought arises through the temptation of the devil or the flesh to be unkind, it is quickly dismissed because it is rejected as being an interloper in a body that dwells in kindness.
When snappishness and rudeness come out at the slightest disagreement we have seen the real person emerging. A selfish and self-righteous individual who has a very high opinion of themselves acts in this way, lacking respect and honor.
May we as believers seek Christ to "BE" kind on the inside rather than just "ACTING" kind on the outside.
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