God dreams of people believing in Him

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God dreams of people believing in him, being proud and standing tall in their faith.

“‘I said, How I would set you among my sons,
and give you a pleasant land,
a heritage most beautiful of all nations.
And I thought you would call me, My Father,
and would not turn from following me. (Jeremiah 3:19 ESV)

It is perhaps odd to think of God doing something as human as dreaming but remember we are created in his image not the other way around. Jeremiah 3 is all about God's dream of his people Israel returning to him and all the peoples of the earth knowing and worshipping him and all calling him father. This dream is mirrored with the dream of the people to be prosperous and living in a peaceful and abundant land. This multi layered dream is the background to the Bible, it goes something like this, God dreams of fellowship with his creation so he created men and women, those men and women dream of the abundant life, God sees these dreams and hopes that man's dream will include him. It is a roundabout of hope, God sent his Son Jesus to be our Saviour and to give mankind a way of dreaming faith dreams but for some reason mankind refuses the dream. Will something as simple as a blog be a means of refreshing that dream in mankind?

God wants people to be proud of being Christian and to stand tall in their faith. He wants us to be strong enough to withstand the mockery of non believers. He wants a readiness to answer for our faith and the strength of character to stand our ground. These things can only happen when we are dependant on him when we not only know our need of him but refuse to act without his strength. This is the meaning of the passage we have looked at before blessed are poor in spirit. You will notice that the same reward is reserved for the poor in spirit as it is for the persecuted, the kingdom of heaven is theirs. This is the New Testament dream of God, that people will dream of God and will act out their dream with a whole heart. Lets do it.