Thursday, March 1, 2018
BUILDING THE DREAM
BUILDING THE DREAM
Jacob was a DREAMER=he
Told his brothers=he was
His Father's FAVORITE
But his brothers RESENTED him=
Threw him into a cistern=and
SOLD him into slavery
“They said to one another=
'Here comes that mater DREAMER'” Genesis37:19
Sibling RIVALRY taken to the extreme=
The story of Joseph and his brothers
Was a FORESHADOWING=
Of what was to HAPPEN
In Jesus' life
Jesus was that MASTERFUL DREAMER=
Who dreamed of a LIFE of God
And LOVE for all
And we KNOW how he was treated=
What was to happen on earth
BUILDING a life of God=one God=
ONE LIFE of love for all
BUILDING THE DREAM!
“And afterward
I will poor out my SPIRIT
On all people
Your sons and daughters
Will PROPHESY
Your old men
Will dream DREAMS
Your young men
Will see VISIONS” Joel 2:28 and Acts 2:17
Jesus CHALLENGES us
To work on our INNER SOULS
To BECOME the potential people
That we could be
Jesus had a VISION
For this world
To BUILD a life=to build
A world FULL OF LOVE
But Jesus=the DREAMER=as Joseph
Was before him=and Martin Luther King
And the KENNEDYS were after him
Were MISUNDERSTOOD and resented=
But that did NOT stop them
From working to make their VISIONS=
A REALITY in this world
Building the DREAM=building
ON THE VISION
“A time to kill
A TIME to heal
A time to tear down
And a TIME TO BUILD” Ecclesiastes 3:3
“And I tell you
That you are Peter
And on this ROCK
I will BUILD my church
And the gates of Hades
Will NOT overcome it” Matthew 16:18
“Therefore=ENCOURAGE one another
And BUILD each other up
Just as in fact you
ARE DOING” 1 Thessalonians 5:11
I CAN'T BELIEVE that Jesus' DREAM
Of ONE CHURCH=has turned into over 40,000
Christian churches
I believe he WANTED ONE CHURCH
BUILT out of love=OUT of LOVE
Of God=and LOVE of others=TOTALLY
INCLUSIVE=and I am making that
MY DREAM
ONE CHURCH FOR GOD
ONE CHURCH for all!
Jesus CALLS us to work
With GRACE to bring GOD'S DREAM
To fulfillment
Make Jesus' dream YOUR DREAM=
One life=one love=TOTALLY INCLUSIVE
Of God's LOVE for all people
Let us BRING JESUS' DREAM
To fulfillment=BUILD THE DREAM
In Jesus' name and the name of OUR GLORIOUS GOD the Father
Robert P. Wallman
3-1-18
Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Chris Koellhoffer, I.H.M.
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