Are Dreamers Dangerous?

Who said…?

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

“My dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope on earth.”

“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why…I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

“I dream my paintings, then, I paint my dreams.”

Walt Disney, Abraham Lincoln, Robert Kennedy and Vincent Van Gogh.

 

Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during sleep. Some are delightful some nightmarish. Now a daydream is a visionary fantasy, imaginative thoughts, usually fun and with joyful thoughts or fantasies when awake. Daydreams can be dangerous and have negative outcomes. For instance when one causes an accident while driving, yet, daydreaming due to lack of focus.

Daydreaming should be a profession that pays the highest wage right? Government already has the distinction of having the most daydreamers on the payroll, so far as anyone is counting. They dream of how to raise your taxes and not call them taxes. There are fees, licenses, permits, and a thousand other ruses to gently float that money out of your pocket and into the general fund where it is spread like manure to grow more voters.

 

Dreaming isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Adam dreamed of taking care of Eden forever but ended up working the soil by the sweat of his brow. Then there’s the guy who dreamed of building bigger barns and taking life easy, his future was less than 24 hours before being nipped in the bud. The devil dreamed of sitting on God’s throne and having every whim fulfilled, he got a rude awakening and will not finish well at all.

 

Its human nature to dream a little, but then you put dreams aside and start the business of living. Ambition is not a bad thing, but it can blindside you to the important matters of life. We wouldn’t have skyscrapers or suspension bridges or tunnels under rivers if there weren’t dreamers. Jet airplanes, super-tankers, and space travel originated by a dream. Mega-churches, mega-amphitheaters, and mega-stadiums were first dreams on paper.

 

Can you dream where America would be without God? Can you dream where this country would be without the great-awakenings? Can you dream where this great nation would be without a national Day of Thanksgiving? Can you dream where this country would be without freedom of religion? Can you possibly dream what would happen if we did what God asks of us?

 

“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves

and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will

I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

2 Chronicles 7:14