“Serving someone else’s dream isn’t less significant than pursuing your own.”

From a thought in Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small by Mark Batterson. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

Mark says, “This may come as a mild surprise, especially in a book about pursuing dreams, but I don’t believe that everybody is destined to pursue his or her own dreams. Not everybody is a maverick dreamer. But if you’re not, it’s imperative that you get around someone who is. Why? Because without a vision the people perish!”

He then says, “Serving someone else’s dream isn’t less significant than pursuing your own. In my opinion it’s more noble. It’s the dreamer who gets most of the credit at the curtain call. But I wonder if second fiddles will get most of the reward. And ultimately, it’s God who gets all the glory when the final credits roll.”

Look at this, “Alex Haley, the Pulitzer Prize– winning author of Roots, is said to have hung in his office a painting of a turtle sitting on a fence post. ‘Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post,’ Haley said, ‘you know he had some help.’  Coaching legend Vince Lombardi said something similar: ‘The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.’  Whether it’s a man on a mountain, a turtle on a fence post, or a king on a throne, you know they had some help getting there. It’s true of every dream, every dreamer.”

Maybe God hasn’t given you a dream but maybe He wants to give you to a dreamer because they really need you. 

Just a thought sent out to you today.

So who is it who has a dream that grabs you?