Last night, "I had a dream......."
Any "Josephs" out there who interpret dreams??
I was riding around the streets of Boston (a place I am not unfamiliar with, but am not intimately connected to) in an older Ford Mustang Convertible, with four new tires. It was very stiff handling with those new tires, so I had to really hang on to the steering wheel, since with new tires, the vehicle was tight and responsive.
I had someone with me who I perceived to be a friend, but I didn't have a sense of a particular person (it was a guy) that I knew.
The road (highways) were full of congestion from construction and workers, and I had to do some creative and careful driving to negotiate my way around them as they went on with their work.
At some point, I stopped and parked the car in a section of Boston where there were lots of outdoor markets (like a strip mall) and went walking past many of them.
I must've purchased a piece of clothing along the way, because I had a plastic bag with a T-Shirt in it, slung over my shoulder. At one point along the walk, a young fella perhaps in his mid-twenties, came along and took my bag, (I didn't resist, but I said to him, "Really?! For a T-Shirt?!") and then gave it back.
As I negotiated the crowd thru that row of stores, I saw these men standing around, looking like Secret Service Agents. Not with sunglasses or ear phone; not talking into their sleeves; just perusing the crowd in a serious manner, as if they were under the instruction of another authority, watching all around me.
"It's not like 'I' am the specific one that they are looking after," I thought to myself, but rather perhaps someone else." Yet I felt safe & protected.
At one point, one of them, a slightly younger (mid-thirties perhaps) guy, was walking along side, and actively making my way easier to navigate. When I sat down on the grass at the edge of a road to rest, he sat there with me.
When I awoke this morning, and considered the dream, (not placing a lot of stock in dreams, even knowing that sometimes in history, and perhaps even today, God Speaks to us thru dreams) I thought perhaps that my dream was due to a recent conversation I had had, (in here, perhaps?) about "Pilgrim's Progress." I also thought perhaps the dream was saying that Gods Angels are "given charge over" me/us, and I needed somehow to be reminded that thought the road is treacherous and challenging, God places Angels in our lives to walk among us, and watch over us, who answer to Him, for their duty.
It was consoling to think that at the very least, God would bring to mind this morning, that fact. That He DOES have Angels living among us; that He DOES care for us; that nothing happens that God does not allow.
Perhaps He was trying to tell me what He's been reminding me of all along.......to "trust" Him. That word "trust" again! It keeps popping up.
That thru His Plan, thru His Sovereignty, I can rest in confidence and safety, in the shelter of His Oversight and Care.
I COULD pay attention to my OWN desires, and yet God (like the many places in Scripture where we read "but God,".......those places where we are reminded that Gods Will WILL be done........is ever Vigilant, ever Watchful, and instructing his Angelic hosts with marching orders for his Beloved Church.
-Soupy
Any "Josephs" out there who interpret dreams??
I was riding around the streets of Boston (a place I am not unfamiliar with, but am not intimately connected to) in an older Ford Mustang Convertible, with four new tires. It was very stiff handling with those new tires, so I had to really hang on to the steering wheel, since with new tires, the vehicle was tight and responsive.
I had someone with me who I perceived to be a friend, but I didn't have a sense of a particular person (it was a guy) that I knew.
The road (highways) were full of congestion from construction and workers, and I had to do some creative and careful driving to negotiate my way around them as they went on with their work.
At some point, I stopped and parked the car in a section of Boston where there were lots of outdoor markets (like a strip mall) and went walking past many of them.
I must've purchased a piece of clothing along the way, because I had a plastic bag with a T-Shirt in it, slung over my shoulder. At one point along the walk, a young fella perhaps in his mid-twenties, came along and took my bag, (I didn't resist, but I said to him, "Really?! For a T-Shirt?!") and then gave it back.
As I negotiated the crowd thru that row of stores, I saw these men standing around, looking like Secret Service Agents. Not with sunglasses or ear phone; not talking into their sleeves; just perusing the crowd in a serious manner, as if they were under the instruction of another authority, watching all around me.
"It's not like 'I' am the specific one that they are looking after," I thought to myself, but rather perhaps someone else." Yet I felt safe & protected.
At one point, one of them, a slightly younger (mid-thirties perhaps) guy, was walking along side, and actively making my way easier to navigate. When I sat down on the grass at the edge of a road to rest, he sat there with me.
When I awoke this morning, and considered the dream, (not placing a lot of stock in dreams, even knowing that sometimes in history, and perhaps even today, God Speaks to us thru dreams) I thought perhaps that my dream was due to a recent conversation I had had, (in here, perhaps?) about "Pilgrim's Progress." I also thought perhaps the dream was saying that Gods Angels are "given charge over" me/us, and I needed somehow to be reminded that thought the road is treacherous and challenging, God places Angels in our lives to walk among us, and watch over us, who answer to Him, for their duty.
It was consoling to think that at the very least, God would bring to mind this morning, that fact. That He DOES have Angels living among us; that He DOES care for us; that nothing happens that God does not allow.
Perhaps He was trying to tell me what He's been reminding me of all along.......to "trust" Him. That word "trust" again! It keeps popping up.
That thru His Plan, thru His Sovereignty, I can rest in confidence and safety, in the shelter of His Oversight and Care.
I COULD pay attention to my OWN desires, and yet God (like the many places in Scripture where we read "but God,".......those places where we are reminded that Gods Will WILL be done........is ever Vigilant, ever Watchful, and instructing his Angelic hosts with marching orders for his Beloved Church.
-Soupy
