As a child, like most, I spent a lot of time dreaming and imagining. My sitting room was a jungle, where I would save a whole tribe from an erupting volcano. The drying pavement outside was just the right substance to heal cancer. Good thing I discovered it! My living room would transform into a boat. I would, obviously, save the boat from sheer destruction as it slid past an iceberg (I had some help with that last plot).
I had and still have ambitious dreams, as do many children. I wanted to be a world-changer. But as I got older, I ran into an interesting phenomena best explained by scripture. Proverbs 13:12 says, “Hope deferred makes the heart grow sick”. While refusing to let my dreams go, I realized that my actual reality was different than the reality I hoped it would be. With that realization, in 2014, I began to pray with vigor, “Let the word become flesh in me.”
Now I understand that Jesus was THE WORD becoming flesh as it says in John 1. However, for a moment, let’s meditate on that scripture to see how it may apply to us as well. The word [the written word of God, his nature] became flesh [reality in the world] in and through Jesus. Jesus is a world-changer. World-changers allow God ordained thoughts and dreams to become flesh around them. World changers, just like Jesus, ask themselves, “How can I make God’s reality, my reality?”
God’s response to me was this: Revelation 3:18, “…put salve on your eyes so you can see.” In simplistic terms, he was saying to me, “CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE!”
Journaling, making 5 year plans, vision boards, and discipline are all very important if we want to see our dreams become a reality. However, all of these actions must first be grounded in a perspective of hope, because those who “hope in the Lord will not be put to shame”. And as we change your perspectives, our actions will begin to reflect that hope and trust that we have in the Lord to be who He says He is, do what He says He will do, and perfect the works He’s started in us.
During this season, as you are making your follow-through plans, your dream boards, and your 5-year plans, spend time pursuing hope. Listen to those songs that remind you of God’s goodness, take captive those negative thoughts, and tack up those scriptures that speak of the impossible happening. As you walk in a supernatural perspective of hope in 2015, watch as the words spoken over your life from the Lord become flesh.
