Dream Killers

H.B. London, sharing about Joseph and his colorful coat, spoke last night about things that rob you of or hinder your dream. One facet that I have thought about is that in order for Joseph's dream to come to fruition, he had to go through the pain to see the promise. I'm pretty sure during the whole false accusation thing and being forgotten by the one whose dream he interpreted, he wasn't thinking, "Oh this must all be in the plan of God." But God had character issues to put in place in his life so that he would be ready at the appropriate time.

Concerning the things that discourage us and try to kill our dream, sometimes we must pass through things that appear to cause our dream to die, but all the time your dream is like a seed planted in the ground - it has to die so that God is the only one who could cause the life to spring forward out of it, and get the all the glory from it.

Paul didn't get the answer he wanted either about his thorn in the flesh, but sometimes there is grace in the thorn - if God removed it, you may never become all that He intended for you to be.

While things may come to kill your dream, it is only because God will resurrect that dream at the right time in the right place so that He will be glorified!