Dreams and Goals

"For that reason, faith is the way and all is given by grace; and the promises of Abraham are fulfilled for all his descendants, not only for his children according to the law, but also for all the others who have believed." - Romans 4:16

In each of us, God puts a dream which our hearts want to accomplish. I was speaking with a friend of mine who told me metaphorically that he wants to conquer the world but things get in the way. He knows that everything is in God's hands, but I feel that he might be putting a little too much pressure on himself. In Genesis, God told Abraham that he would make his descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky. God gave him a dream to look forward to and Abraham had the faith.

Naturally, when we have a dream, we may put our faith in God, but we feel a great burden to get things off the ground ourselves. We need to learn that God wouldn't put anything in our hearts that He wouldn't take the lead on in developing. Like Abraham, our part is to have faith. When in this letter to the Romans, Paul says that faith is the way and all is given by grace, it means that our faith, like Abraham's, is what opens the door for God to work. All is given by grace means that the actual work, and the results of our faith are completed and achieved by the power of God, not by ourselves. This is grace, a free gift of God. As much as Abraham wanted, he could not make his elderly wife fertile or pregnant. Only God could do that, and He did because Abraham believed.

There is nothing in this world that we could ever successfully accomplishment without the grace of God. All we need is the faith in Him to believe it will happen, and He will do the rest! Notice, the only action God calls us to in this verse is to believe, and nothing else.

Today's Prayer:
Lord, help our faith. We have dreams we want to accomplish and projects we want to get off the ground. If these things are not founded on You, they will never take flight. Help us keep our faith firmly on You as we wait to see the fruit of our dreams. In Your Name we pray, amen.