God tells us to do things less because the thing needs doing and more because we need to do it.
In the Visitor Shed, Camp C, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana, God is meeting needs this weekend. Some men needed a good meal; needed to know that God loved them; needed to forgive and know they are forgiven; needed to know that someone outside of Angola knows they are alive and cares about them. Others needed to be needed; needed to be used by God; needed to see that God is alive and operating in the lives of men, needed to know that they are truly blessed in their lives and that others are loving God and doing His will in circumstances beyond their comprehension . God is meeting all those needs.
OC reminds us today that “dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong. When we are getting into contact with God in order to find out what He wants, dreaming is right; but when we are inclined to spend our time in dreaming over what we have been told to do, it is a bad thing and God’s blessing is never on it. God’s initiative is always in the nature of a stab
against this kind of dreaming, the stab that bids us “neither sit nor stand but go.”
God is working in that Visitor Shed because a few stopped dreaming and started obeying. And His work in them and his blessing for them far exceed the blessings given to those whom the former dreamers were called to serve.
There is dreaming in every life. There are planted dreams about seeing God work and being part of His plan. There are also physical and spiritual needs throughout the world that are daily going unmet because there is too much dreaming and not enough obeying.
Stop dreaming and start obeying and
Be blessed.
Nick
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