Walk past any playground or listen to any group of kids on summer break and it’s obvious. Children love to dream. Whether it’s hitting a homerun in the bottom of the ninth inning to win the game, becoming the first female president or being the first person to travel to the farthest point of outer space, children have no limits to their dreams. At some point, we all dream. Some of us big. Some of us small. But we all dream.
Sadly, though, somewhere along the road of life we stop dreaming. We trade the imaginations of our childhood for the information of the day. Why? It all boils down to one thing—fear.
We’re afraid that if our dreams are too big, too grand, then they won’t come true. And we’re afraid of dreaming because we rely on ourselves to accomplish those dreams. And when we realize that we can’t do it on our own, we settle. All too often we settle for the repetition of daily life and forget that God has an adventure planned for us. But as long as we’re comfortable, we forget about dreaming.
God doesn’t want us to live that way. God’s plan isn’t for us to settle. He has so much more in store for all of us! And so God dares us to dream. But he doesn’t just tell us to dream and then leave us on our own. Jesus tells us in Mark 10:27, “‘…all things are possible with God.’”
There’s no room there for fear or trepidation. Jesus didn’t limit the things that God can do in your life, so don’t limit your dreams. Remember, God is bigger than anything you could ever dream. Don’t settle for less than God has in store for you. Take the step of faith and allow God to show you what he can accomplish, and dare to dream!
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