Day of Praise

We, 07/03/13, "Day of Praise"

Genesis 28:12 - "And [Jacob] dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!"

What are you dreaming? Jacob, in today's Bible verse, dreamed of heaven coming to earth and of earth being brought into heaven. As the July 4th holiday is near, people have been telling me all sorts of things they're dreaming about for their time off. (I know I'm not dreaming this up! :-) )

Here's what my daughter, Calley, dreamed and recently posted on her blog (www.voguemind.blogspot.com). It sounds like a dream straight out of the Bible book of Acts, chapters 2, 4, and 6.

Yesterday, Calley noted the following:

"Once I dreamed of having a community in which I employed workers to work on my farm, and we all lived in the love of the Lord. We have a God-fearing, scripture-centered congregation. We are fully sustainable. We've got teachers for the kids. Everyone just does whatever they are skilled and gifted at doing. Bakers, gardeners, seamstresses, doctors, quilters, writers, cooks, pastors, musicians, barbers, mechanics, prophets, encouragers, mercies, rulers, singers, managers, inventors, everything you can be good at. We give to one another as each has need.

And we grew oranges and cucumbers.

That was a cool dream."

Thank you, Calley! Oh that all of us would dream (and live) Bible dreams, where people just live out the Biblical dream of helping each other. That would be like heaven come to earth!

"And [Jacob] dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!" - Genesis 28:12

Praise God!

(For an archive of "Day of Praise", please visit my daughter Calley's website at http://dayofpraisepc.blogspot.com/?m=1)


Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson