Perhaps you’re like me and you have strange dreams while you’re sleeping. I find that my most bizarre dreams happen in the early morning, just before I wake up. This past week while on vacation, I had one of those early morning dreams, and in the dream Faith Church had one of those old-style marquee outdoor signs with the chunky red letters, the kind of signs that theaters often used. But in the dream Faith Church’s property was along Route 222 here in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where Lancaster Bible College is located. Somehow in my dream, three geographical places merged into one. Faith Church, LBC, and the marquee, which is from my brother’s place of employment, The Marriage Hub in E-town (in fact, they have a webpage dedicated to the sign!).
The dream gets crazier. Two people from one of the churches that rents from Faith Church were working on placing a message on the marquee. And the red chunky letters were really chunky. Each letter was the thickness of toaster oven. I’ve seen the letters that go on The Marriage Hub’s marquee, and while they are bigger than I expected, they aren’t the size of toaster ovens. In the dream as the rental people were pulling a letter off the shelf, it was so heavy, they dropped it and it shattered on the ground.
In my dream, I felt fear. Fear? Why? Because I thought, “What would people at Faith Church say when they found out that one of our renters did something to damage our property?”
There you have it. A window into my psychosis. In other words, that’s the kind of thing I think and feel on a regular basis because it is a part of my real world. And out it comes in my dreams. Fear often comes out in our dreams. So, what do you fear? Have you had any dreams lately that exposed your inner fears?
This coming week on the blog we continue our series on the Life of David, and we’re going to be talking about dealing with fear. We’ve barely met David, and in fact we haven’t heard him utter a single word. All we know is that Samuel anointed David to be the next king of Israel, and after that momentous event, David went right back to tending sheep. That is, until the current king, Saul, needed a musical therapist, and his attendants learned that David was not only a good shepherd, but he was also quite the budding musician. So, from time to time, David would visit Saul and soothe his troubled spirit with music.
Everything is about to change for David, as we will learn this coming week on the blog when we study 1st Samuel 17. I urge you to read this famous chapter ahead of time. See if you can notice the theme of fear. In our posts next week, we learn how to address our fears.
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