{"id":1978,"date":"2020-06-12T21:02:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiosoniconline.com\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2021-01-19T19:48:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T19:48:48","slug":"breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiosoniconline.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/12\/breathe\/","title":{"rendered":"We the Dreamers"},"content":{"rendered":"

We the Dreamers<\/strong><\/h3>\n

When you feel it
\nOnce you see it
\nAnd you BREATHE IT
\nIt\u2019s unforgettable<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lyrics from \u201cTo the dreamers\u201d by For King and Country.<\/em><\/p>\n

The rush is amazing. The thrill is, well, thrilling. There is something a dream does to you! An idea that resonates with your very core has a way of shaking you to your very core. It\u2019s fascinating, at least to me.
\nThere\u2019s one question which always excites me and I look forward to knowing the response every time! \u201cWhat do you want to be when you grow up?\u201d You can see from the eyes of that young child that a whole world has been opened up. A smile is my instant reflex to this sight.
\nI have an incredibly adorable little niece, Sindi. She\u2019s never without a spark in her eyes when answering this question. Sindi can make the most \u201cnormal\u201d profession seem so enchanting. You should hear her talk about wanting to become a cop. You\u2019d think they are special agents poised to save the world (they do save the world, but you get what I mean) I admire that. I want that! I am almost jealous of it. Her young mind is still tickled by the world and she hasn\u2019t quite learnt the meaning of \u201cimpossible\u201d, \u201creality\u201d and the other words adults chain themselves with as an excuse to be imprisoned at one place and settle for less.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t blame them.
\nI don\u2019t blame us.
\nOnly God knows how many times I\u2019ve changed the answer to the question, \u201cwhat do you want to be when you grow up?\u201d Change in interest wasn\u2019t the reason, no, not most of the time. I was trying to choose what was more \u201cpractical\u201d. Looking back, and if I\u2019ll be honest with you and the image that stares back from the mirror with eyes that judge me, I was looking for the easiest way out. Boy, have I had beautiful dreams, and then forced myself to re-dream and re-dream yet again?<\/p>\n

Yet again, I don\u2019t blame us.
\nWe\u2019ve been scarred; bruised by a cruel reality we didn\u2019t prepare for. Too many failures and disappointments have made our hearts too weak to believe. A friend of mine, during a conversation on new year resolutions, said he stopped making them because he is never able to achieve them. Now, he has \u201cresolved\u201d to let the year just roll on. Many of us have become like this friend of mine. We have had too many \u201cflamboyant dreams\u201d die that now we won\u2019t do it anymore! No expectations, no disappointments, right? We now allow life to just roll on. This same friend of mine has grown tired of believing God for great things because, well, nothing seems to have materialized from that. Well yes, he believes in God, he\u2019s not atheist, but he believes a lot slowly now. Like a wounded lover, this time his love (faith) will be less of a reckless hurricane and more of a gentle sprinkle. Let\u2019s settle. Let\u2019s stop dreaming. And let\u2019s call that facing reality!<\/p>\n

I present to you another reality to face! The same one I presented to this dear friend of mine. Why does failure have to stop you from making resolutions? What if the problem isn\u2019t necessarily the fact that resolutions are set but that we aren\u2019t poised to fulfill them. Before I move on, this is not an advocacy for unrealistic goals like planning to be able to fly like an eagle by the end of the year. No! This is a appeal to the Dreamers and Ex-Dreamers to redefine reality. Reality isn\u2019t what is working in society now or what \u201ctrends\u201d and \u201cstatistics\u201d have proven to be best practice. Reality is God, Period! And God expects that we dream big, with Him of course.<\/p>\n

So Dreamer, are you ready?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a look at an ancient Dreamer whose story was told in the Bible – Mr. Joseph Jacob (I\u2019m guessing his father\u2019s name would be his surname), the Zaphenath Paneah and the Dreamer of the Tribe of Judah (or the tribe of any of his sons). His dream seemed so far fetched and so crazy it had to take God to achieve it. And it did! That\u2019s where our focus should be. Where there times when he made new year\u2019s resolutions that \u201cthis year I\u2019ll walk in my destined path\u201d? Perhaps.<\/p>\n

Did it come to pass? Not for 13 years, until it did! Joseph was still living in the now, in \u201creality\u201d, yet he still had his eyes fixed on the \u201c real reality\u201d; what God had told him. We all the know how the story ends.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you don\u2019t know how your story ends. Perhaps you aren\u2019t aware of how many people would benefit from the dream God has placed inside you.
\nPerhaps that\u2019s why you don\u2019t mind living in \u201creality\u201d and making \u201cpractical\u201d plans and ambitions.
\nWhat you settle for may seem logical to you. People may praise it. It may be paying the bills and making you look good while you are at it. But deep down, there exists that teeny tiny nudge that won\u2019t let you feel fulfilled. It keeps at it, like a morning alarm when you can\u2019t find the snooze button. It keeps alerting you that you are made for more.
\nSo much more!
\nAnd once you get a hold of what God planned for you long ago, that\u2019s when you start living!<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you feel it
\nOnce you see it
\nAnd you BREATHE IT
\nIt\u2019s unforgettable \u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Breathe it in!
\nThis is for the Child-Like
\nThis is for the hopeful
\nThis is for those still hanging on to God\u2019s promise
\nThis is for us, the dreamers.<\/p>\n

Of course there are a million and one reasons we decide to not have \u201cbig dreams\u201d. Over the years (this makes me sound so ancient, gosh), I\u2019ve learnt to question my unbelief and any other thing that prevents me from reaching my full potential. And right here and now we\u2019ll question some of those!<\/p>\n

What if I fail?
\nAhuh? Yesss? What if I fail? Then I\u2019ve failed! I\u2019ll try again and next time I\u2019ll get it.
\nSee, in my opinion (very humble opinion, please) we give failure too much power. The fact that you fail once doesn\u2019t mean the dream isn\u2019t meant to be a reality. Even fail a thousand times! You can still get it right! The examples of people like that are endless! Google them, go ahead! God Himself had a dream to make man just like Him. Adam didn\u2019t make it. But thousand and thousands of generations after, God is still in the business of perfecting the saints. He doesn\u2019t stop after we mess up (which looks like His dream failed). Let me just say this. I\u2019m not insinuating that God fails (God forbid I say that). I\u2019m making a point. If God becomes like us and judges His successes by how Christ-like we are, then we would say He has failed and this would make Him not won\u2019t want to continue. Yikes! I hate to imagine that! God never gives up on us even when we aren\u2019t \u201cworking\u201d because He has seen the end! He has beheld it and it\u2019s unforgettable! May I humbly suggest that we be like our Father in Heaven? Keep that dream alive. Keep going. See the end. See Christ! Once you breathe that in, It\u2019s unforgettable.<\/p>\n

What if I\u2019m making a mistake and this dream is not from God?
\nReally? What if God would order my steps and make sure I\u2019m on the right lane! I won\u2019t dwell on this point too much.
\nBy this time , I hope, the message is clear.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.\u201d \u2013 Vince Lombardi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Bible is overflowing with many of such testimonies of people who did things that seemed super impossible till God stepped in. Would you have believed Granny Sarah would be a mother? Impossible is what God sounded like speaking to stammering Moses from the burning bush. Imagine being an insignificant shepherd boy and God puts a dream in you to be King over the land. Impossible, no? But that\u2019s why it\u2019s God giving you the dream! Duh!
\nAn interesting twist is that not every dreamer had his dream come to pass. Abraham still lived in tents and so did his son and grandson. Yet, God promised him a whole nation! David, the shepherd turned King, had a dream to build a temple. He couldn\u2019t. His son did. All the same, these people were part of the great Hall of Faith in Hebrews 11. God doesn\u2019t judge our work based on the results that everybody sees. I\u2019ll like to believe that God is more interested in the faith we have in Him while still holding on to the dreams He has given us-even if we are hanging by a thread. So chill. Keep your focus on God and keep working hard.<\/p>\n

\u201cNever tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.\u201d \u2013 G. M. Trevelyan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I choose to be ignorant of the existence of impossible!
\nI\u2019m a Dreamer!!
\nWide-eyed Dreamer!!
\nI believe that God is waiting to do the impossible through me.
\nI dare to see that.
\nI dare to believe that.
\nCan you?
\nBecause trust me, it will be unforgettable!<\/p>\n

G.O.Ink<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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