Your dream:
You know how we came to a sense of clarity and a type of resignation to how things were supposed to "work?" You know how you were laying this week in front of God for Him to make any revisions He might want before you went into action on what He has already said? Then you had the strange dream last night where you were ordering at a burger joint before going to a place that from a distance looked like hills and lakes but turned into a swimming complex of many pools. That this was a place where you had worked before, but now it was a lot more high tech. Nolan was there and tried to get into a frozen one. You pulled him back behind the fencing around this strange pool. As for your own interactions with the water, you jumped in fully dressed and surfaced to put your wallet and keys on the side.
Nolan's dream:
...Listen to what Nolan dreamed. He dreamed he was at something that seemed to him to be like an amusement park, only he couldn't see any of the rides. All he could see was a tall mountain that was in the center of a huge lake. You could jump off the side of the mountain and swim, or you could parachute down from the top to the lake below and swim. He had dreamed of this place before, but when he was there in a previous dream, he was alone. This time, you and Elijah and two men were with him. He said you worked at a diner affiliated with the park the whole time, but that he jumped off the mountain and swam. He said the funny thing was that none of you were wearing swimsuits, you just swam in your regular clothes.
You asked God to state His revisions, and He answered you, although we were too obtuse to see it's meaning. These dreams were His revision. Sorry it took me until this morning to see where that uncommon image connected with Scripture. Like I said the other day about revelation knowledge, when it is first given it is an image that seems odd or incongruous, but then when its meaning becomes clear, your first thought is, "But how did I not see this immediately?" It is the story about when Simon (meaning the impetuous) really became Peter, the Rock--not so surprising you'd be connected to him, eh? He'd been called Peter by Christ prophetically, but here he received his commissioning.
John 21:
...Simon Peter, Thomas nicknamed the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the brothers Zebedee, and two other disciples were together. Simon Peter announced, "I'm going fishing."
The rest of them replied, "We're going with you." They went out and got in the boat. They caught nothing that night. When the sun came up, Jesus was standing on the beach, but they didn't recognize him.
Jesus spoke to them, "Good morning! Did you catch anything for breakfast?"
They answered, "No."
He said, "Throw the nets off the right side of the boat and see what happens."
They did what he said. All of a sudden there were so many fish in it, they weren't strong enough to pull it in.
Then the disciple Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's the Master!"
When Simon Peter realized that it was the Master, he threw on some clothes, for he was stripped for work, and dove into the sea.
That was from the Message, The King James says, "Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he had removed it) and plunged into the sea." (John 21:7)
Significant things that followed in Peter's story are:
- When he reached shore, Christ already had fish cooking, but added more from their catch, from the 153 that He'd miraculously led them to find.
- He restored Peter in a way connected to the specific features of how Peter had denied Him...three times denied made for three opportunities to restate his personally perceived relationship with Christ.
- Immediately thereafter, Peter was commissioned to feed Christ's sheep. During the three times of asking for Peter's affirmation, Christ reverted back to calling him Simon, dropping the name Rock...giving the man the privilege of changing his position...but despite prior circumstances pointing to his continued destiny as a Simon (impetuous), he nevertheless did go on to became a Rock, just as Christ had predicted many days before that one.
No wonder you and Nolan both saw these things the same night...for it is indeed a great commission. Seems like whenever something comes by spiritual messenger to you or me in dreams, one of the children picks up on it and dreams something that adds even more depth and texture. (One of the coolest things about being family.)
What to think about from here? That you rose up to put your wallet and keys on the side is what has now captured my attention. Also, that Nolan saw you working in a diner the whole time, and in the Bible story Christ was cooking a meal for them.
What to pray about from here? These feeling you're having, feelings of restlessness about your occupation, a dissatisfaction that is larger than just your ache over being away from your family so much. Hmmmmmm.
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