The current economic perceptions, and who's responsible...

I had an interesting dream this morning:

I was with lots of people at a very beautiful hotel. It had columns of solid gold in the front. I saw a close friend of mine drive up in a Wonder Bread delivery truck. As I looked at the truck, I saw it roll over maybe three complete times to the right and then maybe two complete times to the left. The truck was getting pretty beat up at that point and getting flimsier and flimsier. Another friend thought we should take the truck to the back of the hotel but I knew it had to go to the front. As I started taking the truck to the front of the hotel, I looked at the friend who was the driver and said, "The more the Lord tries to get your hand off this, the more you try to attach your fears to it."

I believe that this dream shows that the Lord Himself is clearly causing the economic turmoil in the world today. Know this, He is doing this, along with other reasons, in order to get His people to take their trust off of their own ability to provide for themselves and to turn their trust to Him.

I also believe that the more the Lord shakes, the more we tighten out grip on what we do have and the more fear we operate in. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!

If we can really embrace the Lord's heart in these matters, then we will then be "in front of the hotel." I believe that the hotel represents true Kingdom provision and that it promises us deep and abiding rest and safety if we but trust in the Lord for all our needs.

You know, this isn't really deep revelation. It is simply pointing us to what is already documented in the Bible. Matthew 6 and II Corinthians 9 address this directly but we really don't believe it. Why else would be spend so much time and effort chasing after these worldly things when they are strictly prohibited in Scripture??

Remember what missionary Jim Eliott said?? "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."