More About Dreams

More About Dreams

I find it interesting how often God will comfort His children who are grieving the loss of a loved one through a dream.  I have mentioned the verse in Hebrews before which talks about a great cloud of witnesses watching us run our race (see Hebrews 12:1).  I don’t believe there is sadness in heaven but I still believe our loved ones can see us but our struggles don’t make them sad, partly because most of the struggles if not all of them are based on the lies of the enemy and I believe they see the truth not the lies but also because they are not limited by the present, there is no time in heaven, if we make a mistake they can already see how God will use that mistake for something beautiful.  To them it is like seeing us run a race, when a racer runs up a hill he is huffing and puffing and every muscle in his body hurts but us fans, we don’t stand around crying because it is so hard for them, we clap and cheer them on and are happy for them, we know they’re ahead, they’re winning and that pain will be rewarded with a medal which will make the pain seem insignificant.  That in my opinion is how they look at our struggles.  Nothing we go through on this earth is anything more than a little muscle pain in light of heaven and the happiness in eternity.  Remember our loved ones live in that happiness and know what is waiting for us.  

But now back to what I started with about God comforting us.  God on the other hand took humanity upon himself when He came to earth and he is still fully human and fully God.  Therefore I believe He knows exactly what we are going through whether it’s based on lies or not and He understands our grief when we loose a loved one.  He goes out of His way to comfort us and like I said before I’m amazed at how often he uses a dream. 
Jake has at least two dreams which have brought him much comfort.  He struggled with the feeling that Roderick's body was underneath the cold dirt in the cemetery.  He knew that Roderick was in heaven but his mind would just be stuck with this image until one night he had a dream that Roderick had come back from heaven, everyone was so excited to see him but Roderick didn't know that he had been gone.  He was with his cousins, happy and excited and Jake had a problem getting his attention.  His Grandpa wanted to see him too.  This dream really helped Jake to change that image in his mind and again see Roderick as alive and happy.  
The next dream was just after our first Christmas since Roderick left.  This time he dreamed that Roderick had come back from heaven for just a bit.  Again Roderick was busy but Jake was trying hard to keep an eye on him because he knew that Roderick was going back to heaven soon and Jake wanted to ask him a couple questions first.  Finally he was able to get his attention and asked him "what happened in that room?" (meaning the night of the accident) Roderick answered "I have no idea, dad!"  Jake was about to ask what heaven was like but woke up before he could.

My uncle and aunt lost their nine-month-old son, years ago in South America, while on a trip.  He became sick there so they had to stay longer then they had planned.  Soon after the funeral they returned home.  My Aunt always struggled with the strong feeling that they had just left their son behind until one day in a dream Jesus came to her and gave her son into her arms.  He was healthy, warm and happy.  Jesus told her she could hold him for a while and then He would take him back with Him.  That was a huge stepping-stone to my Aunt’s healing.

Another young man was telling Jake how his father-in-law had died in an accident.  He had been separated from his wife and they had fights frequently.  With the way this couple was taught they greatly struggled with whether their father would be in heaven or not.  They so longed for the assurance that he was in heaven with Jesus.  One day the Lord gave them a dream.  In the dream their father called them on a cell phone, I’m not sure what the father’s message was but his voice became quieter and quieter on his way back to heaven and this was complete assurance for this young couple that their father was indeed in heaven. 

This to me was another very precious revelation.  You know, a lot of us have misbeliefs because of the way we have been brought up or whatever other reasons and even if our struggle is based on lies God still cares enough to bring us comfort, in fact, I think that all of us will realize in heaven that not everything was the way we believed it would be.  That’s one thing I want you to think about when you read my blogs.  When I right my imaginations, revelations, thoughts and what I believe I know that not everything will be so when I get to heaven or even a year from now I will look back and see some flaws in the way I believed today but I think that the Lord takes pleasure in the fact that we believe and meditate.  That is what brings faith, hope and love, these are what will remain for eternity not the details as to what we believe or imagine.  Even if we put God in a box He is willing to be there in that box with us and comfort us in our grief, if that makes any sense.  Mind you, He’s not just in the box He’s also outside the box with the rest of humanity contrary to what those inside the box often believe.  Some of us might be far off in what we believe about God and heaven, we all believe different things and often get caught up in all the details of what we believe or don’t believe about heaven, God and our loved ones who have gone on before but I don’t think God is so focus on those details, He looks for faith hope and love in the heart and whether all the other things we believe are exactly right or not is not so important to Him.  I think sometimes He finds these (faith, hope and love) in the hearts of people we think are far off in their beliefs.  A friend told me this week how she had lost a sister this year and she was finding dimes everywhere, to her these were signs her sister left for her, pennies from heaven she called it, this to me was a foreign belief.  Another time a friend mentioned how she would get the shivers and believed that was her dear friend giving her a hug but she was saddened by the fact that she had friends who did not believe it.  How often did Jesus say in the Bible “according to your faith be it unto you”.  Now I know that was usually healing miracles but could it be that God will use what we believe to strengthen our faith and bring us comfort?  If we believe in pennies from heaven will He have our loved ones drop us dimes, so to speak to comfort us or will our loved ones come and hug us in the form of shivers or a dream if that’s what we believe?  Maybe they are just dimes a neighbour dropped or just shivers or just to much pizza before bed but our faith brings us comfort because of what we believe.  Once we get to heaven it won’t matter anymore how that dime got there or if it was our loved one or God or an angel or just a lost dime, so why will we make a big deal about it could God not use our faith to comfort us and strengthen us in whatever way He chooses?  I think the saddest thing is if the Lord sends comfort over and over in whatever way it is but because of our lack of faith we don’t receive any of it.  So lets keep that faith hope and love real in our hearts, these are the things that will last forever.