I had a dream early this morning. It was one that was intended as a message. It all started with a banquet, the largest I had ever seen. It was at a country club, and the table settings were amazing and expensive. The food had not been served yet. The table itself stretched out of sight to the far end of what seemed to be and endless room. There were a lot of empty places at this table, and there were a lot of conversations. I was facing the windows which lined the wall, and I was three seats from the right end of the table. I was sitting next to a man with a shaved head, about in his late twenties or early thirties. He seemed like the biker type. He wore a gray tank top and jean shorts and sandals. To his right was a woman who was having a conversation with my wife and her friend, all three, oblivious to me and the man.
I started to have a conversation with this man, and I felt really at ease in his presence. Suddenly, I realized that it was Jesus. I don't mean that as it was just a some guy in a dream claiming to be Jesus. I mean it was Him! I knew it without a doubt as I have been in His presence before. (see last blog entry) I could feel it throughout my being. I was excited. We were joking, laughing, and talking, and all I could do was ask Him things. I wanted to know more about Him. I could tell that He didn't want me to tell anyone else who He was because He had wanted them to come to Him. You would figure that I would ask him to cure my ailments or solve my financial problems, but no, I just wanted to get to know Him as my friend. After all, you can't be friends with someone you don't really know. It was just an amazing vision.
Well, when I had woken from the dream I felt great, and prayed for interpretation. This is what the messages in the dream were. First of all, everyone, and I mean everyone in the world, was invited to this banquet. This is the same with God. He invites everyone to be with Him throughout eternity. He sent His only son, Jesus, to die for our sins so we could do that through Him. Then there were the empty places at the table. Not everyone accepts this gift of salvation. We have free will, and we have to make that choice for ourselves. God gave free will to everyone because He loves us all that much. Then there was the fact that I was spending time getting to know Jesus while everyone else were distracted by their own conversations. We can be like that. We allow the world in general to take away the time we have to get to know Jesus as our friend. We are distracted by jobs, worries, illness, disease, other people, friends, family members, vacations, money problems, and the list goes on and on.
I'll leave you with a few questions that you have to decide the answers for yourself. Have you really accepted the invitation? Have you found a church home? Do you know someone who has chosen not to accept the gift of salvation, and what can you do? Have you invited someone to church or to a church event? Have you spent time in prayer, no matter how short a time that is? Have you read the Bible? Have you done anything like a Bible study or a daily devotional to get to know Jesus better and have Him as your friend, Lord, and Savior? Have you shown anyone what the love of Jesus really is by example?
