I had a dream a couple of nights ago. A dream nothing like I had ever experienced before in my life. I wondered if I had imagined it, but I was asleep so it was a dream. I dreamed I was standing and watching a very barren dry land where nothing was growing. Everything was dead and there were people laying on the ground unable to get up. At the edge of the scene there stood Jesus he was standing and looking at this barren land. As he stood there I was able to see his face. He started to lift up his arms and as he lifted them the barren land was transformed into the most beautiful rich green land with rivers, mountains, flowers, birds and lush land. The people laying in the ground got up and were healed. Jesus lifted his hands up to heaven and when he raised them up the whole land was transformed.
The dream switched to a boat in a very dark muddy water with no life in it. Jesus was standing in a boat and again he started to lift his hands and as he did the water became the bluest water you had ever seen and so many fish and the ocean was transformed into such amazing beauty.
Then the dream ended and I woke up a little while later. I believe that our world is this barren land and when we accept the Lord into our life we see all this Beauty and we are transformed. I know my life has been transformed into ways I never could imagine.
One of my friends said that this dream is similar to what is written in Ezekiel 37.
Ezekiel 37:1-14 NIV
[1] The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. [2] He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. [3] He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.” [4] Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! [5] This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. [6] I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’ ” [7] So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. [8] I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. [9] Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’ ” [10] So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army. [11] Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ [12] Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. [13] Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. [14] I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’ ”
I will still reflect on this dream as it’s got so much depth in it. I do know that I no longer walk in that barren land but in the land that is lush that is filled and surrounded by God’s goodness and His promises.
How do you want to live your life?
Beauty from Ashes. 