Saturday, April 9, 2016

Dream of Seaweed in Pools-Doubt and Unbelief



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

Noooooo...don't take the bait! Stay in Faith!

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