This was an awesome dream I had last night.
Parts of it are vague, parts are not, and there were intense realizations, epiphanies, through the dream.
To give the full gestalt of it:
I saw the world as like a stage. The world was put under a bad director and a bad producer, the Devil. The Devil and his crew chose who got the best roles for a long time. They chose people like themselves and crowned them with power and majesty.
I saw this first as two child actors being chosen to play some great roles. They were incredibly cute but I thought they were terrible people. I saw how they were great child actors but once their role was over they were finished. But they were made to play those roles.
I saw two meek children replacing them in their roles. And I saw how they simply did a horrible job at it. I had to admit, nobody could have done these roles better then these two child actors and I was shown these meek children had other, better roles to play later on.
I saw that these bad people tried to put me in various roles that were shabby, but how none of them fit. However, they were the only roles I had played and in a sense seemed to define me.
Then, I saw how everything was changing and how everyone was made to have their role to play, the role that fit them perfectly, which was also their "day" -- as in "every dog has their day".
I saw how the behind the scenes crew was changing and the meek were finally about to get their real roles to play.
There was a lot of excitement.
I saw my past life and how it was like night, like dead. But, how it was also as meaningless as a role someone has played. And how a great problem in my life was there was no play for me to ever be in. Not in this world. I saw that with a lot of people.
I saw how there was this new play coming up, though. It was a big deal, and it would finally be the roles we were meant to play.
The great epiphany was in finally seeing myself and seeing how this new role fit me perfectly. That I did not even understand myself, but in seeing myself in this new role, how it showed who and what I really was all along.
In the dream, I saw how the behind the scenes management was changing and a new play was coming up where all of the rejects, losers, meek, the weak, the foolish of the world actually had their "Day" coming up -- their great play.
They would finally fit in. They would finally find their world. The part they were born and made to play.
We often talk about how the Spirit of Christ changes us. How even the worst of people can become great in Christ and totally transform. I believe this, but it is also true that God chose the weak, the foolish of the world to shame the strong.
When you put it altogether... it paints a picture.
I saw that picture in this dream.
It was truly glorious.
For me, I have very often of late had the viewpoint that anyone can change, that anyone can be redeemed. But, this seems to go against the truth of what Paul was saying, how God chose the weak and the foolish to shame the "strong" and the "wise".
In this dream it was shown how people were the way they are, and how they are made to be that way. It is who they are. It fit and seemed so perfect and obvious. That they were made for the role of their "Day".
I was reminded of the gospel verse about lazarus in Hell, how the wicked were told that they had their good things which these good had their bad things; now it is only fair that the wicked have their bad things while the good have their good things. This silenced almost completely silenced him. As a right argument does. But, he said, "Let me go and warn my brothers", and it was said that if they do not believe Moses and the Prophets, they would never believe.
I was shown how hard it is to truly find who one is, even if that is the face staring back at you in the mirror everyday... it is impossible, it was shown in the dream, until one came to the role they were made for before time.
Parts of it are vague, parts are not, and there were intense realizations, epiphanies, through the dream.
To give the full gestalt of it:
I saw the world as like a stage. The world was put under a bad director and a bad producer, the Devil. The Devil and his crew chose who got the best roles for a long time. They chose people like themselves and crowned them with power and majesty.
I saw this first as two child actors being chosen to play some great roles. They were incredibly cute but I thought they were terrible people. I saw how they were great child actors but once their role was over they were finished. But they were made to play those roles.
I saw two meek children replacing them in their roles. And I saw how they simply did a horrible job at it. I had to admit, nobody could have done these roles better then these two child actors and I was shown these meek children had other, better roles to play later on.
I saw that these bad people tried to put me in various roles that were shabby, but how none of them fit. However, they were the only roles I had played and in a sense seemed to define me.
Then, I saw how everything was changing and how everyone was made to have their role to play, the role that fit them perfectly, which was also their "day" -- as in "every dog has their day".
I saw how the behind the scenes crew was changing and the meek were finally about to get their real roles to play.
There was a lot of excitement.
I saw my past life and how it was like night, like dead. But, how it was also as meaningless as a role someone has played. And how a great problem in my life was there was no play for me to ever be in. Not in this world. I saw that with a lot of people.
I saw how there was this new play coming up, though. It was a big deal, and it would finally be the roles we were meant to play.
The great epiphany was in finally seeing myself and seeing how this new role fit me perfectly. That I did not even understand myself, but in seeing myself in this new role, how it showed who and what I really was all along.
In the dream, I saw how the behind the scenes management was changing and a new play was coming up where all of the rejects, losers, meek, the weak, the foolish of the world actually had their "Day" coming up -- their great play.
They would finally fit in. They would finally find their world. The part they were born and made to play.
We often talk about how the Spirit of Christ changes us. How even the worst of people can become great in Christ and totally transform. I believe this, but it is also true that God chose the weak, the foolish of the world to shame the strong.
When you put it altogether... it paints a picture.
I saw that picture in this dream.
It was truly glorious.
For me, I have very often of late had the viewpoint that anyone can change, that anyone can be redeemed. But, this seems to go against the truth of what Paul was saying, how God chose the weak and the foolish to shame the "strong" and the "wise".
In this dream it was shown how people were the way they are, and how they are made to be that way. It is who they are. It fit and seemed so perfect and obvious. That they were made for the role of their "Day".
I was reminded of the gospel verse about lazarus in Hell, how the wicked were told that they had their good things which these good had their bad things; now it is only fair that the wicked have their bad things while the good have their good things. This silenced almost completely silenced him. As a right argument does. But, he said, "Let me go and warn my brothers", and it was said that if they do not believe Moses and the Prophets, they would never believe.
I was shown how hard it is to truly find who one is, even if that is the face staring back at you in the mirror everyday... it is impossible, it was shown in the dream, until one came to the role they were made for before time.
