I had a strange dream last night.
There was a man walking in the desert. It was hot and dry and he had been walking for a long time without anything to drink. He was exhausted and desperate for something to drink desperate for some kind of help. As he continued to walk, a car pulled up to him. Inside was a man dressed in a nice looking suit wearing a pair of sunglasses. The car stopped as the man pulled off the sunglasses and the car door opened. The man who was walking could feel the cool breeze from the air conditioning hit his face and it felt good for a brief second. The man in the car motioned for the man who was walking to get in. The man who was walking hesitated for a moment staring at the car. He didn’t look around, he just stared at the car.
At that moment, I could hear voices coming from the same direction the car came from. I turned and looked and saw a woman riding a camel. She was calling out to the man who was walking. I could see that she was carrying food and water and I could see a cross around her neck. Somehow in the dream, I knew that she was sent from God and the answer the man who was walking was looking for. She continued to call out as the man who was walking just stood there staring at the car.
The man in the car, whom I now noticed had flames in his eyes, smiled and motioned again for the man who was walking to get into the car. This time without hesitating, he got into the car. I tried to tell him about the women and that there was helping coming and that this was a mistake, but it was like the man could not see me or hear me. I am not sure if I was just observing what was happening or he was in a trance, but he just got in the car and I could not stop him. As the door closed, the man who drove the car smiled an evil smile at me and I could see snakes begin to cover the feet and legs of the man who was walking.
I turned back to the woman who was coming on the camel and tried to call out to her. She was frowning and had stopped her camel. As the car began to pull away, she just sat there as her face turned very sad.
When I woke up and was lying in my bed this morning, I was thinking about this dream. How many times do we go through something that is difficult and want to take the easy road out when that may not be the right choice. It reminded me of a scripture that a friend recently shared with me to hold to while I was going through my medical issues.
2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
None of us want or desire trials, but in life they come and when they come the Bible tells us to face them because as we go through them we will grow. Even Jesus face trials, and he didn’t walk away from them, but he faced them. And the devil knows when to hits us when we are at our weakest. After all, he went after Jesus after he had been fasting for forty days and forty nights and yet our Lord stood strong and he grew and was ministered too by angels. We too need to stand strong, use the word as our sword and remember that we do not walk this alone and know that we are growing.
Tags: camel, car, desert, endure, faith, man, woman
Jester,
This is a very interesting dream to say in the least. I heard these words while I was reading this “Ishmael always comes before Isaac”.