Is your best life lived in your dreams?

I meant this post for a week ago and have since pro­cras­ti­nated.  The worse news is now that I am finally get­ting around to this post I am real­iz­ing it has been a month and half since I last wrote.  Shame on me!  I know I have dis­ap­pointed my loyal reader out there.  So who­ever you are, I am sorry and thank you for hang­ing strong.  I look for­ward to the day where I can make reader plural, account­ing for more read­ers.  But I digress.

A week ago at Marsh Creek Church we preached on the sin­gle life and God’s gift of sea­son in our life.  The encour­age­ment is to embrace the sea­son you are in.  Take hold of it, suck the mar­row out it, live the life you have for all it is worth.  Regard­less of our sta­tion in life we are more prone to notice what we don’t have, and com­ment on what we wish would hap­pen, or what we would like to get, achieve, become.

For many this means the best hours of their day are spent asleep.  In their dreams they find the per­fect life part­ner, have the per­fect career, the per­fect kids, the per­fect car, the per­fect min­istry, the per­fect Church, etc.  For many of us our best life is lived in our dreams.  Author and Pas­tor Erwin McManus does this sub­ject a ton more jus­tice in his book Wide Awake which is well worth the read.

It is a sad state that our best life is bot­tled up in the most inac­tive ours of our exis­tence and when we do come to and set our feet on the ground of real­ity we feel we have to set­tle.  I do not believe God cre­ated us for this.  When He cre­ated mankind He put mankind in par­adise and gave them pur­pose in rela­tion­ship with Him.  It was per­fect and I believe they were truly sat­is­fied.  They were liv­ing wide awake.

I want to encour­age us all to take stock of where we are and the dreams we desire to take hold of.  Prayer­fully lay these desires before the Lord, but also do some­thing about it.  Even if it is a small thing.  Stop wait­ing to live, and start liv­ing today.  The act of liv­ing, of pur­su­ing our God given call, pas­sions, dreams, pur­pose and tal­ent is our spir­i­tual acto of wor­ship.  Sun­day does not have to be the best and only hour you wor­ship.  It is the cel­e­bra­tion of all the wor­ship­ping you have been doing all week because you are alive, and liv­ing life!  Life is too short and too hard to set­tle for sec­ond best.  So live, cease the day, and praise God for the oppor­tu­nity to do so along with the bless­ings that come your way.