“Time can talk you out of your dreams.”

A thought by Steven Furtick (2010-09-21) from his book, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible (p. 30). Multnomah Books. Kindle Edition.

What dream did you have at the start of 2012? After one week do you still have it? Maybe you shared it with someone and they laughed at you. Maybe you dreamed that you could lose 50 lbs. this year but you couldn’t make it through this week and you decided, what’s the use?

I know we say we get smarter and our experiences and disappointments make it so much more difficult to really dream but we still can have dreams. When I was young and had a lot of years ahead of me it was easier to dream great dreams. But life isn’t over even at 64 ½. Some of my best dreams are still to be dreamed. We need to really believe that.

Now dreams have many purposes other than just fulfilling them. I have not had all my dreams come true yet but I have had so many things come about because I had a dream. Dreams give us hope, give us purpose, and give us meaning no matter how great they are or how small they are.

Yes life can talk you out of them but life can also bring them to reality. They don’t just happen. It takes a lot of hard work but it is always worth the risk and the effort. Remember Abraham and Sarah in the Old Testament had their dream of a child fulfilled when they were in the 90’s. Remember Colonel Harlan Sanders at 65 took $105 from his Social Security check and started a chicken franchise that he sold 10 years later for $2,000,000.00. He didn’t let the fact that a new interstate highway killed his restaurant. He had a dream.

God has a dream for you and time will try to destroy it but hold steady. God is in the dream business even though the difficulties of the times we live in can talk you out of them. Just think, this may be the year that it will come true. So don’t give up.

So what is your dream?

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