47. DREAM: missing our own wedding
Posted by:
SeLahGirl on
February 16, 2008 at
2:42PM EST
a friend of a friend (whom I've never met) just sent me a dream
and asked for my thoughts about the symbolism and anything I felt the
Lord might be speaking. It was a dream about her disdain at being
required to take a shower with several people that she knew were really
gross in sin, mixed with other people including her husband and several
Christians she knew. She couldn't bring herself to do it.
She ended up being run all around by people on van trips and across
fairies to participate in mundane details of ministry. She was very
frustrated with everyone and everything because she was supposed to be
getting ready for her wedding day. Thru all of this she was making
arrangements for the wedding, the cake, ect... but she ended up with
not enough time in the natural to get her shower and get herself ready.
She woke up very panicked and frustrated and afraid of missing the
wedding altogether.
The thoughts that came to my mind were...
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The dream seems to strongly expose what that unpreparedness involves,
partially at least. The church has separated itself from the very
people that it is supposed to be here to minister to. Traveling on
faries and in vans is riding along with a form of godliness (a Pharisee
spirit, Matt 23) but not really doing much for God. Again, as in the
other dream, we have let the busyness of a religious (Christian) life
tie up our time and frustrate our peace. And time is running out. The
wedding day is approaching, the Bridegroom could come at any moment.
The church has wasted too much time with trivial things while the
broken-hearted and hurting continue to cry out for food and
relationship and hope. Jesus wouldn't bother with 80% of the things the
church currently holds as necessity in ministry. Measuring the church
today to the example Christ set for ministry in Scripture is like
comparing an apple tree to a piece of apple artwork. One lives but one
is dead. No matter how pretty it appears. It is time for the church to
clean up and hear the leading of the Spirit as he brings all things
back into alignment. The vision of the church has gone a little eskew,
but God has come to discipine if necessary (always with love). But a
trip to the woodshed is in order for much of the church ^_^
The shower scene just seems to emphasize this whole thing. It is
distasteful to be in intimate fellowship with the unclean, and yet that
is where Christ lived most of his life while on the earth. It is a
place of fear and tempation and attack and injustice and yuck. But.....
when that place is a place for all of us to come clean -- then it may
actually be something God is requiring and commanding us to do (he
never promised us comfortable relationships and 4-star accomodations --
he promised the opposite during our time on this earth). We all need a
bath, daily, no matter how clean or dirty we are. In the presence of
God, in the church, in ministry, among the family, with the people of
God... that's where that cleansing takes place because that's where God
is.
If we want to be prepared and on time, we're gonna
have to be unafraid to be in personal, intimate, and vulnerable
situations with the unclean. Our hearts must remain separated, and
yet... our hearts must reach out to theirs. We can't hold them at arms
length, they can smell the stench of fake love and so can God. We must
be wise as serpents, but we must be about the Father's business --
genuine love. It is a delicate balance. But just as Christ came to us
and embraced us and ate with us and fellowshipped with us in community
despite our sin and our ugliness... the church must do the same. We
were them once, and we would be the same again were it not for Christ.
The church has better get real about loving God and loving people
... or she will not be ready when the Bridegroom comes.
Many of us may just miss our own wedding.
just my thoughts as I read over this in the presence of Jesus.
I pray the Lord would confirm only what he is speaking.
Love in Christ <3
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one other thought. Your spouse is sometimes symbolic of your physical
man, while you represent your spiritual man. Since your husband was in
the shower, but you were not.. it simply emphasizes the fact that many
in the church are going thru the motions in the physical (for
appearance sake, again, Matt 23)... but their heart is unwilling to
come clean and to truly love the unlovely.
yikes O_o
