Rescue...

(9:14 PM PST) - Last night I dreamt that I was visiting (maybe living in) a coastal city. The details are becoming more foggy because I am some 18+ hours removed from the dream. I think it was a tropical region and the specific location in the city was a resort like area right on the beach. Once again I don't remember much regarding the entire context, but the scene involved a major storm that was ravaging the resort and everywhere up and down the coast. Hundreds of people were being swept out to sea.

It was a dramatic scene and very terrifying. In the dream I felt compelled to do something. I couldn't just stand there and watch people die. I had to try and help. Now the truth is in real life it would have been 100% IMPOSSIBLE for me to help without professional equipment. Because the waves crashing the shoreline were way to powerful and the wind was exhaustively destructive, but in the dream it was a different story and I was able to rescue a number of people.

The reason I share this dream is because it was a very moving scene and when I woke up the only thing I could think about is our responsibility as followers of Jesus to rescue people from the destructiveness of sin. Ultimately we cannot rescue or save anyone. Jesus is our only Saviour, but we can help people accept salvation—we can facilitate in that process.

It would be a tragedy for anyone of us to stand idly by and watch people suffer and die without a hope, without THE hope of Jesus! I remember in the dream thinking two things: 1) I had to try, and 2) I did not know who I could help—I remember attempting a rescue but was unsuccessful, yet other attempts were successful, because in the attempt to rescue one person who missed my reach I was able save another.

In the salvation of humanity we must do our part, we must try. We don't know what will work when or with who? But we do know our efforts will not be unsuccessful. Ecclesiastes 11:1 tells us to cast our bread upon many waters and after many days you will find it. This is imagery teaches us that we must do our best to share the love of Jesus with as many people as we can. Because when we share Jesus the living water and the bread of life far and wide we will find it again after many days. Our efforts will yield a rich harvest. We don't know what will produce a harvest or where, so we must cast the bread of life everywhere and to everyone.

Let's be active in sharing the love of Jesus, let's be active in getting to know Jesus and then we will have something to share with everyone we meet.

(10:15 PM PST - the next day)