Dreams and Understanding

Sometimes I think our dreams are meant to torture use. To cause use to want and desire things we can or cannot have. I wonder what is the true purpose for dreams?

My Bible has a message in it that states dreams are given to use by God, so that we may hunger for Him more. This also leads off of the passage I mentioned earlier in Matthew 4:4 – “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God’.” That we hunger for God’s word. That verse is Jesus quoting from Deuteronomy 8:3 -“He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that people do not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.”

So God causes us to dream so that we will hunger Him. But He also uses dreams to show us visions. That is where in my mind things get confusing. I know God can reveal His plans for peoples lives and the world through peoples dreams, for He does so in both Isaiah and Josephs dreams (just to name two out of the many listed in the Bible). But where does His visions start and our imaginations begin? Because for me it is hard to tell. Some say that the strange dreams, the ones you are unable to interpret are from God. Where has I have heard that the ones you remember are from God, for how could you forget something from the Lord?

And yet for me, being one that wants to be a published novelist someday, I know that my imagination can cook up some rather strange and unforgettable dreams as well as visions – one doesn’t have to be a sleep to dream!

And because, my imagination runs hog wild, I feel tortured. It plays out for me the things I want most in life. The feelings of happiness, love and safety. I so deeply desire. It makes me wonder are these dreams from God or is the Devil and my subconscious just trying to torture me? Will my dreams come true or will I be running circles once more with my life?!

It’s hard when you don’t understand or fully know.

~ by Joy on March 11, 2008.