Day 25: August 5, 2012
God gave me a really cool
dream last night. In all reality it was probably a bad dream but I got
something good out of it. I think the setting of the dream might have been the
end of the world but I’m not sure. In the dream Satan was coming up to earth
and taking people captive and bringing them into Hell even before they died. I
was in a group of people that was captured. When we were first captured, Satan
and his demons were having get into different categories. You were either a
first, second, or third degree sinner. Satan wanted to make us feel as ashamed
as possible. Many of us, went into the third degree sinner category, trying not
to look around at anyone else. After we had been processed we were all put into
a big room and we were locked in. But the group that I was with started to look
for a way out, a way to escape Satan’s prison. And a couple times we found a
way to Heaven and we were overjoyed to be with God. But Satan realized we were
missing and came and got us. God tried to reason with him and work something
out so that we could stay, but Satan wouldn’t let us go. We were stuck. And
Satan continued capturing other people and they were trapped too. At one point
I asked someone else, “But how does Satan have the power to keep us here since
Jesus died on the cross?” And someone answered me, “He didn’t die on the cross.”
So we had no way out, we were stuck. There was nothing we could do. We were all
sinners and had no way to keep ourselves in Heaven because Jesus never died on
the cross.
I had never thought of
that before. What if Jesus hadn’t died on the cross? What if God didn’t have
power like he does? I have just always taken for granted that Jesus did die on
the cross and we are offered freedom. I’ve never thought of it any other way.
In that dream I felt hopeless. There was nothing I could do, Jesus had no way
to keep me in Heaven and Satan kept taking me back. Not only that, Satan had
increased in power and could do whatever he wanted on Earth. Jesus wasn’t just
creating a way for us to get to Heaven when he died on the cross. He was
defeating and conquering Satan, Satan’s control over us was death. Death was
the punishment for our sin and when we died we were on our way to Hell because
of our sin. It was Satan’s control mechanism, a way to steal all of God’s
children away from him. When Jesus died on the cross, he took that control from
Satan and freed us from his bondage. He created a way for us to live forever.
Death was conquered and life and freedom was increased.
So I thought of that
dream when I was worshipping in church this morning. I had been praying that I
wouldn’t take salvation for granted and that I would find joy in it. And that
dream provided the revelation I needed. I am free! I am not defeated by Satan.
Satan doesn’t have the power to take me captive in Hell nor does he have the
power to taunt me or keep me in bondage on earth. Jesus has conquered him! I am
free! Now that is something to have joy in!
After church we had a lunch
for everyone that helped with the teams over the past couple of weeks and also
a farewell to Anna. She is leaving early tomorrow morning. Afterwards we hung
out at the church while some played a game of baseball. It was a good time.
After that, Christine
invited several guys from the youth group to come over and watch a movie. We
watched Act of Valor and hung out for a while with them. Christine said hanging
out with them makes her feel like she’s hanging out with her brothers.
That was it for today,
tomorrow I’m helping in the school again and getting ready for the team to
arrive on Tuesday. Keep praying for me in this last week that I am here!
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