This world is a dream

 In Lamentations 3:22-23 it is said 


“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”


What a sweet insight we have of the gospel and the love of our God in our daily rhythm of sleeping and waking. Every night we fall into a sleep. Every morning we wake up from that slumber and that dream world where nothing seems quite right and yet everything seems possible. In the darkness are bodies are trained to fade into sleep until the rising of the sun, when we wake up refreshed and renewed.


In the resurrection the dead will rise with the appearance of the Son like those who are asleep rise with the rising of the sun. The old world will pass away like a dream and there will be no more death and no more sorrow and no more sleep. The nightmare of our sin and our fear will fade and we will live forever in the knowledge of the Love of God. 


Every night and morning we have this picture of slumber and awakening. There hasn’t been a single morning where you haven’t risen with the rising of the sun. Surely you will rise when the Son appears in all his splendor. 


This is our comfort in the hard and confusing times. It is but a nightmare to teach us something. We are bigger than our fears and we know it surely come to an end. When we awake, we realize that we were never in any danger whatsoever and there was never anything to fear. This is also our calling. To not become attached to anything in this dream, to not build up riches here or act as if life is about surviving in this dream world. There is a real life that awaits us in the resurrection. We can suffer the scary things and enjoy the good things knowing that the dawn is coming. We can see past the dreams and the nightmares too and help others abandon their sufferings and their greed, for we will either awaken or remain asleep depending on how real we believe the dream really is.

It’s all a dream. Wake up. 











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