This morning I had this dream and I want to share some parts of it as I feel it is important to address some of these issues that I saw happening in this dream.
One part I saw a young man come into our home with his food, but someone was already preparing food for the family but this young man came in and brought his own food and cooked for himself. And to me someone else was already cooking, but he just took over, and he was treating it like a flatting situation instead of a family situation where we all ate together around the table and had fellowship together. As I went to talk to this young one who came in, he wouldn't listen that we wanted what he brought, but he just stormed out and wouldn't even listen or talk, taking friends with him.
This I believe is quite significant at the moment as many of us come into the house and family of God but once in, see ourselves as individuals and do what we want instead of contributing to the whole and being a part of the whole family. And when someone may challenge us with it, we won't even listen to what they have to say, but leave with offence taking others with us.
We are called as Christians to be a body, to work together, to be a family who help each other, who care for others needs above our own, who serve one another. But in this dream it was all about the individual doing what they wanted. This too is true across the denominations, as we are all still one body, one family, we are not individuals. Many come into the body of Christ but still consider it is all about them and what they can get out of it rather than how they can be a part of a body that has something to contribute and bring to help the body be a family that functions well together.
The other part of the dream, I was taking a teaching on something and this person had freely given $100 but during the teaching, they didn't want to do what was asked and started complaining that it wasn't value for money and wouldn't submit to what was being asked of them and once again walked out.
I find this really interesting because we will freely give money and think we are freely giving it but when we don't get something in return for our money, we complain. And I think of the scripture that talks about giving freely not expecting anything in return.
The other part of it was we wont do what people suggest we should do and in not doing it we do not honour the person bringing it and we do not reap what we could have reaped had we honoured what they suggested we do. But instead we get offended because someone is asking us to do something we don't want to do or are not willing to do. And in this I think of the Karate Kid movie and how he wanted to learn Karate but his teacher first started him doing what seemed like meaningless housekeeping jobs, but in the end it all came together and proved invaluable. During the course of the movie he nearly walked out as he only saw it one way and that was he was doing this mans cleaning, but actually the teacher through those jobs of housecleaning were valuable lessons that was being taught. Often we complain about doing something but in the end they bring us some very valuable lessons if we don't get upset and walk out.