Dream:
4-8-16
I was looking at and getting into a pool where masses of
other people were playing. However, the
pool also had lots of objects like what you would see in a junky garage: old tools,
storage items, and unidentifiable rusty objects. I noticed the pool was also thickly covered
in a mossy seaweed which ultimately became detestable to me. I then had on mesh like gloves that I began
to sweep across the surface with outstretched arms to skim off the
seaweed. It was as if my body was
forming a cross in this motion of cleansing.
I was gathering it in bunches and then tossing it out. I couldn’t get enough of it, however, and I eventually
got out of that pool.
Next, I was standing on a different level below a second pool which was up on higher ground. I was looking up at it from the concrete ground. I could see that pool was full with people, old junky objects and tons of seaweed as
well yet seemed even worse than the first pool was.
I looked down and saw piles of seaweed. This time I was tossing the bundles
back into that second pool. A young man kept
tossing the moss back to me. It would land at
my feet, and I would quickly gather it all up and throw it back in that pool.
Interpretation:
The pools represent the world and its way of thinking. We who are born again are in the world but
not of it, (John 17:16). When we are of the world we are reliant on our substance
of the world that drives us and which we depend on, much like we depend on our
cars to drive us everywhere. We house
our cars in garages to keep them safe and maintained which symbolizes all the “tools”
and junk the world uses to preserve the means by which they are driven to do
and think the way they do; hence, all the junk in the pools that looked like
old stuff from a garage.
The “seaweed” represents doubt and unbelief-we have to “see”
it to believe it, which isn’t faith but “weeds” that ruin the beauty of true faith. Faith trusts God regardless of what we see.
Skimming off the seaweed from the first pool represents cleaning
out the doubt and unbelief from our minds.
I did this for quite a while in the dream, which represents that it
takes a while for God to work the process in us, using His grace to help us
begin to think differently. It was the
work He finished on the cross, (my body formed a cross in the cleansing process)
that completed the changes which He will work to renew our minds to the Word of
God. This work of His will instill faith
in us since faith comes by hearing the Word, (Romans 10:17) and He is THE WORD. Pressing into relationship with Him (outstretched
arms) will perform the work in us.
I eventually got out of the first pool entirely which represents choosing
to no longer think and believe like the world does. We are told in both Revelations 18 and
Jeremiah 51 to come out of the world’s ways, which is a dependency in our own methods/mindsets
instead of depending on God and His ways.
The second pool symbolizes the world’s ways which, through
God’s mercy and grace, we come out of and want nothing more to do with the doubt
and unbelief caused by thinking the way the world does. That’s why I kept tossing all the doubt and
unbelief (seaweed=see weed) back in to the man in the pool who kept tossing it all
back to me. The world will want us to
operate and walk in their ways, (tossing it at my feet) with a dependency on
what they think, feel and believe. Those
ways of thinking will be counter to true faith in God as our Provider, Safety, Rescuer,
Source, Counselor, True Love, ALL things!
“Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness,
but rather expose them,” (Ephesians 5:11).
That second pool was in a seemingly “higher” elevation than where I was
standing, however, it was “exposed” at that level for what it really was; junk
that truly won’t help us but will work against us if we rely on it. The fact that the young man kept tossing the seaweed back to me shows us we will have our hearts tested consistently in the
areas of doubt and unbelief as trials present themselves. We will have to make the choice to stand in
faith and refuse to give in to doubt and unbelief. We will know if we gave in to the temptation if
we begin to experience fear, anxiety, worry or frustration over a particular
situation.
Being “lower” in where I was now standing in the dream by the second pool, shows
that the posture of our heart needs to be one of humility. True humility depends on God and is
foolishness to the world. “Therefore
humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the
proper time, casting all your anxiety upon Him, because He cares for you,” (1
Peter 5:6-7). When we do this, humbling
ourselves by casting the worry, anxiety, and fear on Him, He will take care of
whatever it is because He cares FOR us, so we don’t have to. It shows we are trusting Him to take care of the situation, knowing in our own humility that we are incapable without Him, no matter
how much “stuff” we have that we could rely on instead of Him.
The second pool being worse than the first is twofold:
1. Once we are
enlightened to God’s truth, it seems like darkness is even darker. We have to press into God to not operate in a
self-righteous attitude. At first, it
seems we become more judgmental. We need
to continue allowing Him to mature us and let Him deliver us of that.
2. This is a
reflection of the times we are in; “For behold, darkness shall cover the earth,
and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and His glory
will be seen upon you,” (Isaiah 60:2).
Standing on “concrete” in the dream shows that we are
standing on FIRM ground when we are fully trusting Him.
Prayer:
Father, forgive us when we are not relying on and trusting You,
when we are not believing as BELIEVERS!
Deliver us from doubt and unbelief which is actually trusting in things
other than You and which produces anxiety, fear, and worry in our minds and
hearts. Deep down, we know it’s not a firm ground we are standing on when we
don’t trust You. Reveal Yourself to us
so You can set us free from this false sense of security or looking to other
means instead of You. Deliver us from
doubt and unbelief. Help us to learn, step by step, that we can fully TRUST
You! Create a hunger in us for You and
reliance on and trust in You. Help us
RECEIVE Your perfect love for us that casts out ALL fear! Amen
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