Daydreaming about something in order to do it properly is right, but daydreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong. In this passage, after having said these wonderful things to His disciples, we might have expected our Lord to tell them to go away and meditate over them all. But Jesus never allowed idle daydreaming. When our purpose is to seek God and to discover His will for us, daydreaming is right and acceptable. But when our inclination is to spend time daydreaming over what we have already been told to do, it is unacceptable and God’s blessing is never on it. God will take the initiative against this kind of daydreaming by prodding us to action. His instructions to us will be along the lines of this: “Don’t sit or stand there, just go!”If we are quietly waiting before God after He has said to us, “Come aside by yourselves…” then that is meditation before Him to seek His will (Mark 6:31). Beware, however, of giving in to mere daydreaming once God has spoken. Allow Him to be the source of all your dreams, joys, and delights, and be careful to go and obey what He has said. If you are in love with someone, you don’t sit and daydream about that person all the time— you go and do something for him. That is what Jesus Christ expects us to do. Daydreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.

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February 20 2015

Journal Entry for Today-JDV

Lord, this devotional hits home. Of course when we hear You or know the direction You have given, it is easy…or easier to get up and get going. But when I think I hear my own voice, or I am not certain…that is when the indecision and daydreaming can start for me. Or when I know I hear Your voice, and I take off in that direction, but things don’t turn out the way I thought they were supposed to turn out. How can I follow You when I am not certain it is Your voice or when I have obeyed only to find that the way and outcomes are all wrong?

And God says…”You cannot judge the right way by the outcomes. If I give a church or elders in a church or an individual specific direction regarding next actions or activities, you cannot measure the rightness or wrongness of the direction based on greater attendance, larger buildings or increased offerings.  You cannot look back at my direction and gauge the validity of hearing my voice based on the notion of human success. My ways are not your ways. Very often you will not understand the outcomes, just know that you are to hear my voice, be connected and obedient. Let Me take care of the outcomes. If God is good all the time, and all the time God is good, the outcomes have nothing to do with your being connected and obedient. My sheep know my voice. Acknowledge Me in all your ways and I will make your paths straight. Just because you have been obedient does not mean that the uncertainty of life, and death, will be removed. If you are to live in faith, your certainty is Jesus, not your circumstances or the outcomes of your obedience. Trust in Me with all your heart, hear my voice, live connected and let Me take care of everything else.”