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Wow, these monks have got it together. Instead of accepting the price that the world was offering them, they decided to create their own business and take the profits to advance the causes of God’s Kingdom on the earth. What an awesome example!
You can take the man out of the prison, but how do you take the prison out of the man? Now, that is the hard question. This man’s mind has been too conditioned to his previous reality. Although you would think he would just burst out and be free, he is actually afraid, he is afraid of change. You see, the cost of freedom is change, it is the death of your old reality, old way of thinking, and old priority and meaning in life. Most men aren’t ready for that. We think we want to be free, but in reality we really don’t. We understand life as a prisoner. It makes sense to us and we are used to it. We know the rules, we know what to expect. We feel safe in a world that we can understand, no matter how miserable it actually is.
So this man shuts the cell door back. He asks to be locked back in and continue to work to be free. Freedom is too scary; it is too unfamiliar to him. At least he understands his cell, at least he knows what to expect.
This describes the life we live when moral perfection has become our goal. Christ actually came and set us free; he unlocked the prison door and set us free. But, in reality, we don’t want to be free. If we ever accepted that we were free from the power of sin and we are made worthy in God’s eyes, it would mean the whole purpose of our life would have to change. This is, in fact, why we go back to sin and struggling with sin. It is familiar to us. We are used to it. It has defined our reality for so long it is difficult to receive something else.
Freedom requires a new mindset, a new way of thinking, a new set of goals and priorities. For some men, this is hard to receive; the moral perfection you are trying to achieve has been achieved already in Christ. When we accept Jesus’ sacrifice for our sins as the sufficient payment for our guilt, we become one with Him. I know it is hard to accept, but when we accept Christ into our hearts as our Lord and savior, we receive His perfection as our own. Christ is the only perfect and completely moral man that has every lived. In fact, He is morality itself. Our faith in Him makes us one with Him, one with His righteousness and one with His perfection. In God’s eyes, you are already perfect and you are free to pursue your dreams in life, the dreams and desires God put in you.
I know what you are saying, “Well what about this sin in my life? What about the weaknesses I still feel?” Faith in Christ means that you believe He paid the price for your imperfection and He has given you His character and nature. The more you renew your mind to this reality, the more your perception about yourself will change and, only then, your actions will change. In short, if you believe and see yourself as a sinner, you will continue in sin. However, if you see yourself as dead to sin and alive in Christ, you will begin to walk as Christ does. Moral perfection only comes through a renewed mindset about your identity and nature as one with the Divine through His son, Christ. But you can not bypass your self perception of yourself.
Once you get that straight, you now can understand the true meaning and purpose of life and morality. Life has to have meaning and purpose in order to be successful. You have to have some sort of vision or dream that you are pursuing, something that is transcendent, that is bigger then yourself that you are striving for. The mark of the high calling that Paul talks about. It is this dream that is a higher and better goal then morality alone. In fact, when you believe that you are worthy, when you accept that you are free, and when you make the sole purpose of your life the pursuit of God’s purpose, you actually express something that is greater than simple moral perfection. As you manifest God’s purpose for your life, you are manifesting God’s holiness and perfection on the earth.
With this mindset, morality ceases to become the end goal, but it becomes the means to achieve that end. Have you ever admired an athlete that seems to be in perfect shape? He goes to the gym, works hard, and eats right, all to be in shape so he can perform at his best. Being in shape is not his main goal, however. His goal is to be a good ball player. However, being a good ball player requires you to be in shape. Working out and perfecting and disciplining your body because the means to assist him in being the best ball player he can be. In fact, even if he didn’t work out so much, he probably would be in better shape than the most of us because he spends a lot of time playing ball. If he just played ball all day long, he would still be in great shape, working out would just enhance him.
Let’s focus on playing the game. There is a time of preparation, developing your skills in private, working out and getting in shape. But nothing perfects you better than getting out there and playing the game. You are perfect and free in Christ if you put your faith in Him. You are worthy and you qualify to pursue your dream. As you get on the path of destiny, the imperfections that still exist will be taken care of as you continue to renew your mind to your new reality in Christ.
Well, I can tell you from years and years of experience, trying to be perfect like Christ is an impossible aim in and of itself, leading to a life of failure, disappointment and wasted years. There is no way that living a noble and pure life can be one’s sole goal in life. For starters, you can’t be like Christ in your own ability. If you could do that, then it would have defeated the purpose of Christ coming in the first place. The scripture teaches us that the law, the standard code of perfection and morality, was not given to us so that we should obey it but to demonstrate that, if left to our own devices, we are incapable of living up to God’s standard. It reveals to us our own imperfections and weaknesses and points to the need for a Savior. Having a moral standard that is so high was given to man so that he could realize that he was too weak to meet God’s level of morality. It was to make man humble and come to God desiring His salvation and His help.
However, if we continue living, solely trying to be perfect, we will continue to fail miserably and will continue to be acquainted with our own inadequacies over and over again. If we make Godly moral character our sole ambition in life, we will sadly miss out on life’s true and ultimate meaning…..and that is to live! The truth is, as a result of the work of Christ and through the help of the His spirit that lives within us; we can live a holy and moral life. In fact, when we surrender our lives totally over to Him, He lives out this perfection through us. However, moral character is a means, not the goal, of your relationship with Christ. There is more to life than just striving to be perfect.
This sole drive towards moral perfection causes you to miss out on the true meaning of life and will, in fact, lead to more sin and corruption. People who believe that they are imperfect will set out to do everything to perfect themselves, shutting down the pursuit of anything else. They become like monks, shying away from the pursuits of life, seeking only moral perfection. Although they have dreams and aspirations, they will shy away from pursuing them because they believe that they are not worthy to pursue them. They haven’t yet perfected themselves so they put their dreams and desires on hold. They say things like, “Once I get myself together, I am going to go after my dream. As soon as I work on this flaw or that flaw, then I can go and do what is on my heart. I just don’t feel ready to go out there yet and pursue my dreams. Let me work on a few more things first, and then I will be ready!”
Days turn into months and months into years as these men struggle with their inner demons that they believe, somehow, they can rid themselves of. They become afraid to pursue what God has put in their hearts because they feel that they are not perfect yet. They feel like they can not expose too much of themselves to people because someone may realize that they still got some weaknesses. They become timid and afraid to come out of their self imposed prison of perpetual self-perfection, not allowing themselves to have true valuable relationships, not allowing themselves to pursue their passions, not allowing themselves to enjoy life. Moral perfection has become the primary goal of their lives and they sequester themselves away from the world and life while they hopelessly work on getting themselves together.
Although moral excellence is a noble aim in life, it can not be the sole purpose of one’s life. The painful reality is that even if you somehow achieve this perfection, you will still have a feeling of incompleteness, an emptiness that comes from the lack of achievement, a thought of “ok, now what?” For most, they never achieve the perfection they are looking for. They are faced with the reality of their continued failure over and over again. Their life becomes a cycle of getting free for a minute and then falling back again, and again, and again. This sad life ends up with continued frustration and the feeling of unworthiness and men who follow this path tend to be sad and lonely creatures. They have dreams and desires outside of moral perfection but they feel they are unworthy to pursue them yet.
The great mystery from this way of life is that it actually perpetuates more imperfection. If you see yourself as unworthy and sinful, it actually creates a self fulfilling prophecy whereby you actually perpetuate your own unworthiness. If you see yourself as a sinner, no matter how hard you try not to sin, you will keep going back to the same behavior because there is no way to truly overcome the perception you have of yourself. If, when you look at yourself in the mirror, you see a weak man, someone who is inferior to other men, you will act inferior and thus fulfill your own self doubt. You will be constantly trying to perfect yourself instead of being just free to live your life, accepting the things about yourself that make you unique and special. In fact, you will mistake your uniqueness for inferiority, which is a deadly, self-mutilating mistake.
Dude, this guy is awesome. I believe the message of this prophetic song resignates with so many people at this moment. Be blessed!
“Matthew 13:22 (New International Version) The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful.”
I always love the end of the year. My birthday is December 24, and then Christmas and New Years follow. It all comes together around the same time and it’s a wonderful time for me to think and reflect on the year that was. It also is a time for me to reexamine my life, to think about where I am, my successes and failures, and what I need to work on.
I did an interesting thing on my birthday this year (besides going to Hooters..lol). I imagined myself at a big banquet being held in my honor. I was old, nearer the end of my life, maybe about to pass on the responsibility of my ministry and business to the next generation. Dang, I looked good for an old man! Still had my health and vigor! I got up and spoke about all the things that we had accomplished together and all the things that were left to complete. I literally gave this speech standing in front of the mirror in my dinner room. I pictured all my family and supporters there listening. It was a truly a surreal experience to me.
It is amazing how when we think about the end of our life and all we truly hope to do and accomplish before we die, how truly insignificant the things that we worry and think about on a daily basis really becomes. Thinking in this way helped me to determine what was really important and valuable in life. It also reminded me of who I really was and what I was called to do, something that we forget about when we allow the minor things in life to distract us.
Out of this experience, I pose this question: Why is it that what we really desire and want in life not reflected in our experience of life? And what happened to our dream and why are we not taking steps towards our destiny? Somehow, I believe we are living a life far beneath what we are destined for.
We all start of so well, with great dreams and desires. Then life hits us. I understand the pain that Joseph in the Bible must have felt, having a dream but the circumstances of life looks like that dream will never come to past, like you are on the wrong course.
I often picture myself in a canoe out on a lake trying to get to the shore. My eyes are fixed on my destination and I am pedaling with all my might and using all my energy. But for some reason, I am pedaling in the wrong direction! It doesn’t matter how hard I pedal, I am not reaching the shore. It’s painful because I really desire to get to shore but all my effort gets me no where.
I understand that all things happen in God’s timing. That there is a set time for all things to be made manifest and you can’t rush it. Destiny is never a moment too soon or a moment too late. If you are faithful to God where you find yourself and trust totally in Him, you will walk into destiny, it will not fail. Sometimes we forget it took Joseph 13 years before his dream actually came to past. During that time, it seemed like it would never happen.
At the same time, I can’t help but wonder if we are missing something. Have we delayed our course, have we taken a detour? Shouldn’t we be further along than where we are?
As I was meditating on this, a thought came to me out of Matthew 13:22. Here, Christ talks about people that have heard His message but seem to not have any fruit of it their lives. You know, the people that go to church every Sunday, heard the message, can quote all the scripture, can praise the loudest, but don’t have any real evidence to show for it in their lives. How could this be?
The answer is this; the word, the dream in their heart got CHOKED! They got caught up in the cares of this world and the dream on the inside of them got choked out. They heard the word but spent most of their time focused on things that weren’t really important. They got a dream in their hearts, but they were too worried about fitting into the world and the dream of God got delayed. They were inspired by God, but their minds were bombarded by random thoughts about nothing each day so that the inspiration slowly diminished. They had a clear vision, but they started chasing after their careers and what the world deems as successful and they lost sight of their destiny.
In this year, and for the rest of your life, make it a point to seek after nothing else but your destiny. There is nothing else that is more important. Instead of randomly thinking, begin to focus your thoughts on what God has said about you. Instead of worrying about things that don’t even matter and that you can’t change anyway, begin planning and implementing a strategy that will bring about God’s purpose. Instead wasting your time doing things that are not urgent and not important, invest your time into the things that will better prepare you for destiny. Instead of living life aimlessly, begin to live each day with a clear purpose in mind.
We think too dang much about things we do not have to think about and we choke out our destiny in the process. We think about what we gonna eat, how we gonna pay our bills, when we gonna find a mate, when we gonna (INCERT YOUR WORRY HERE!!!)
Where your thoughts are, is where your life will be focused. However, when we seek first our Kingdom destiny, all the other things in life we are concerned about will fall into place.
Truth be told, although God’s timing is always certain, many of us are on delay because we have allowed our dreams and destiny to be choked. Make it a point this year to not allow the cares of this world to choke out your destiny. Not another year! Future generations are depending upon you and me.
Making the transition is not always easy. It involves a major paradigm shift in your thinking that is difficult when you spent so much of your life thinking like a boy. To make the transition, you must seek God intensely to find your identity in Christ. As a boy, you gain your identity from the world: how you grew up, your experiences, etc. As a man, who you are as a person, your name, your identity can only come from God.
I am reminded of the story of Jacob who wrestled with God (I encourage you to check his story in Genesis 25-33). Jacob spent all is life with a bad identity. His name, Jacob, meant trickster and he sure lived up to his name, tricking his brother out of his birthright and his father’s blessing. I see in Jacob what I saw in myself and what I see in a lot of men. Jacob lives his whole life with a false identity, labeled by his behavior and experiences.
Truth be told, Jacob was in disparate need of affirmation from his father, Isaac. You see, Isaac liked Jacob’s brother, Esau, better because he was more manly. You know, the outdoor/hunter kinda guy. Jacob was somewhat of a momma’s boy. I believe, the reason he tried to steal his brother’s birthright and father’s blessing was really because he was trying to gain the approval and affirmation of his father. He went his whole life from that point running, trying to suppress his inner hurt. Until one night he decided to wrestle with God (Genesis 32). He refused to let go of the angel, which represented God, until He was forced to not only bless Jacob but give Him a new name, Israel. In that moment, God gave Jacob the affirmation he was looking for and so disparately needed.
Only God can affirm a male and call him into manhood. God affirms you by revealing to you, over time, your true identity independent of your circumstances, your feelings, how you grew up, or what mistakes you made. People can only confirm what God has affirmed. However, in order to receive God’s affirmation, you must be willing to wrestle with Him.
Wrestling with God simply means to hold on to what His word says about you until it transforms your perception of yourself. Regardless of how you feel or what you may have done or what the circumstances are, you hold on to what God has said about you. You govern every thought that comes in your mind and make it line up with the word of God. You meditate on the word day and night by confessing it and thinking on. You spend REAL time with God, allowing Him to teach you who you are in Him. You visualize yourself being what God says you are. You fast and pray to place your body under submission. You walk in obedience to what He commands.
This is called wrestling. It is the process that transforms boys to men. It is the cocoon that every male must enter in order to grow up. It is the place where the boy dies and is put away. And it is the place where the man is resurrected. But it doesn’t happen without a fight. The question is, are you willing to go the distance?
I leave you with this challenge. Grow up! It’s time leave childishness behind you. It’s time to enter the cocoon and wrestle with God. The world is looking for true men to arise and take their place. Your families and future generations are depending on you to be the man God has called you to be.
At its heart, being a man is about freedom. Freedom from being controlled by your past, your feelings, or your conditions. It is the freedom to be what God has ordained you to be. Freedom to live up to your fullest potential and aspirations. Freedom to follow your values and principles and not your temporary desires. When the butterfly finally bursts out of the cocoon, he is free at least! That is what giving birth to manhood is about. It is a feeling of control, self-mastery, and self-governance. There is nothing more fulfilling in life than true, inner freedom as a man!
Proverbs states “…as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” The word “thinketh” here means to be the guardian or gatekeeper of one’s thoughts. In other words, who you are as a man is a direct reflection of how you guard or keep your mind. As a man you are literally the governor or king over your own mind. You are responsible for what goes in and what comes out.
Why is this so important? Because thoughts create perceptions of reality, and perceptions create actions, actions create habits, habits define your character, and character determines your destiny. Thoughts are the seeds of life so the manner in which a man governs his thoughts will determine the quality of life he will live and the quality of man he will be.
As a man, you exercise your freedom by governing your thoughts. You are a king and your mind is your domain and your thoughts are your subjects! Your job as king is to make sure that all of your subjects (thoughts) line up with truth, or the Word of God.
The problem is that when you were a boy, you let your thoughts run wild. You let through every thought that wanted to come through the gate. And now, those thoughts have formed strongholds in your mind. Strongholds are fortified lies that have power in your mind. They set up residence in your domain and are exercising authority in your kingdom. As a man, it is time to get things in the kingdom back under control.
Again, being a man is all about self-mastery. When you master yourself, when you become the king of your own life by submitting your thoughts to God, then you will be able to have external influence over circumstances and an impact on other people. Boys try to control their circumstances and often end in failure and disappointment. Men seek first to master themselves, and then their circumstances must come under subjection.
You know what, as a king there should be some things that are beneath you. I mean, dog, your royalty man! You shouldn’t be struggle with the same lame and stupid stuff you where dealing with when you were a boy. Thinking the same stupid thoughts, giving in to the same silly emotions, crying about the same dead issues, falling for the same old temptations…come on, its time to grow up! Its time to put away boyhood and walk in true manhood.
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The other day I was having one of my moments. You know, feeling pressure to do something you know you ought not to do. It’s the same routine, there is truly nothing new under the sun. And you been down this road before, a bunch of times…too many times if you really want to be truthful. You already know how this is going to end: you feel pressure…you try to resists…you fight a little bit…you reason with yourself…you think “God will forgive me”…you give in…YOU FEEL TERRIBLE!…you think “why the heck did I do that!” It’s the same song and dance for year end and year out.
But this time was different. I heard something on the inside of me say “Hmmm…aren’t you a little too old for that by now? Shouldn’t you be passed all that at this point? Haven’t you been down that road too many times before with the same result? I mean, come on man. Is that what you really want?” Why do we continue to follow the same path to self-destruction when we know what the end result is going to be? Man, its time to grow up!
Then I thought of the scripture found in 1 Corinthians 13:11 “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned (or understand) like a child. When I become a MAN, I put childish ways behind me.” The difference between a boy and a man, between someone who is immature and someone who is mature, is not how much you have grown physically, not what you have accomplished, not how much stuff you have, not even having a woman at your side. There are only three main distinctions between boys and men: how you talk, how you think, and how you reason.
A boy talks about his problems, while a man talks about the solutions. A boy focuses on his circumstances; a man focuses on his vision. A boy lives in the past, a man prepares for the future. A boy lives for today, a man sacrifices today in order to create a greater tomorrow. A boy is like a thermometer (reflects the conditions of his environment). A man is like a thermostat (he sets the atmosphere and changes the conditions of his environment). A boy is a product of his environment; a man’s environment is a product of him. A boy is moved by his feelings; a man is moved by his principles. A boy says “I have to”; I man says “I chose to”. A boy says “No I can’t”; I man says “YES I CAN!” (okay Obama…)
Anyway, the distinction between a boy and a man is like night and day, like a caterpillar and a butterfly. Like a caterpillar, the transition between boyhood and manhood is a metamorphosis; it is a process whereby one nature dies and a new nature is birthed.
Growing up, my sister and I used to go out into the streets and capture caterpillars and put them in a closed jar to watch this process unfold. After a few days, the caterpillar would fold into a white ball or cocoon and go through the process of transforming into a butterfly (or in our cause, a not so appealing moth!) Pretty soon the caterpillar was no more and we would have moths flying around our house. My point is that in order to get the butterfly or moth, the caterpillar has to be put away. And once the transformation takes place, the butterfly can never go back to being a caterpillar.
Manhood is much the same way. In order to become a man, the boy has to be put away. That is why the scripture says “When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.” Note that childish speaking, thinking, and reasoning just don’t go away by themselves. They must be put away, intentionally and on purpose.
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Still dreaming?
To be a dreamer causes you to make contact with God because you are able to peer into the realm where God exists. To make the connection with God makes you righteous. It is not your capacity to do everything right that makes you righteous but capacity to see what God sees, that is true righteous, and it shall produce true holinesses over the course of time. People may remember a dreamer’s failures but it is their dream that will have an impact despite of their failures. Failures come because we can not totally exist in the perfect, we are still creatures of the flesh and are impacted by the imperfect world. But as a dreamer, the impact can not define you so it can never limit you. A dreamer is aware of his failures and short comings. However, a dreamer’s failures only drive him to dream more because the process of living a dream, being contacted to that which is perfect, will only cause the perfect to invade the soul of the dreamer and transfer the nature of the divine. The dreamer’s character can not stay the same once he is possessed by a dream.
When God revives a people, he ignites the dreamers. Dreamers spark a fire in a nation that has no choice but to spread. They are prophetic in nature in that they espouse what they see in eternity, they see a perfect world and are able to speak about it and personify it to others. Through the prophetic, dreamers are the architects of the future, crafting a new world in the mist of the old. They are able to cause a disturbance that shifts the forces of the material world and cause it to move perpetually towards perfection over the course of time.
The raising of the dry bones in a people starts with a dream, a prophetic word that comes to the hearts of a died people. It is not a word about what can or should be. It is a word that expresses God’s perfect reality. The more it is expressed and enters into the hearts of the people, the more they are able to come together as a body united around one vision.
Praying in tongues unites us with the eternal because it connects us to the spirit of God. Dreamers must be able to speak beyond their understanding and comprehension. They must stretch their limits in the natural and reach into the spiritual. You must see no one or no thing after the flesh but only in spirit; you see everything in its divine and perfect order. You speak this order until that which is imperfect is done away with.
When the perfect world collides with the imperfect world, it causes a transformation of what is into what is should have always been, and what always was, in the perfect realm. The perfect world dwells in the hearts of dreamers and it is THE GLORY or KINGDOM WITHIN. Once it is released in the atmosphere through prophesy, personification, and manifestation, it becomes GLORY WITHOUT. God’s will is for his glory to cover the earth both within the hearts of dreamers as well as in manifested works and dreams.
Dreamers are willing to die for what they believe (e.g. Jesus). They realize that the dream is more important then their life and it supersedes them as an individual. It is this understanding that drives them to perfect character. In order to get your dream out of you and into others, the dreamer must die at some level. This death is a death to self and selfish ambition. Once you find something you are willing to die for, you have discovered a reason for living. The death of the dreamer is the only way to get vision locked up within out of the belly of the dreamer.
The challenge today is to become a dreamer. Allow the word of God to dwell in you so much that it produces a picture of a better world. All dreams must be birthed out of the character and nature of God and must start with the seed of His word. God dreams are based in truth, bring together, make the imperfect world better, helps people, and operates in love. Began to meditate, envision, confess, and write the vision that God gives you. Begin to have the courage to follow your heart and act out on that vision. And finally, through allowing God to be God, cause the dream to manifest. It will surely come to past.
Why we need dreamers?
Dreamers are people that are able to stand in the imperfect and yet still see, espouse, and personify the perfect. There are two parallel universes: the imperfect world that we exist in in our flesh, in our physical bodies, the world defined by our experiences and bound by the parameters of time and the perfect world where everything is based on truth, the way things ought to be. Although we exist in the imperfect world in the physical, the force and energy and breath of life does not come from this world. The force of life comes out of the perfect.
Dreamers are able to transcend the imperfect world and dream of something better. They see things not as they are but as they should be. They see in their mind’s eye a perfect world that lines up with all things that are true and lovely. God exists in the perfect, in the eternal, in the spiritual. Everything in the realm where God is is perfect, it is the way things should be. God Himself is perfect and is the source of all perfection. Wisdom, truth, love, hope, all come out of the perfect and the more in tuned we are to the perfect the more we will possess them. There is no time in the perfect world; therefore there is no distance between what is and what should be. Everything in the perfect realm is perfect right now.
Dreamers catch a vision of the world at its perfect state. They get a glimpse of that which is perfect and they become consumed by it. The glimpse comes as a flash of lightening, a short image of the perfect world that they can see with their minds eye. So much so that they are no longer motivated by what they see in the imperfect world. Their conversation can only focus on that which is perfect. They speak only what they see in their glimpse of perfection. This idea of what should be is what motivates them, driving their thoughts, emotions, and every decision. It is what wakes them up at night and in the early morning, driving them to pursue this great vision of perfection. They not only want to visionalize it in their heads, they desire to express it to others and to make it come into reality.
You can not dream, catch a glimpse of the perfect, and remain the same. Change occurs internally first and has external ramifications. As the saying goes, you can not travel within without traveling with out.
The vision of the perfect world is the source of life for all men. Dreamers possess this life by transcending the imperfect world in vision and passion and are, thus, able to transfer this life to others. Transfer of life comes by articulation of what they see in the eternal realm and by personifying and projecting this vision through their lives to others. Dreamers give us hope and push us out of the imperfect world into something more, into something transcendent.
By their shear will, dreamers cause a disturbance to the imperfect world. They make a sound with their words and with their life that shakes up the conundrum of the static and ordinary life, if you can call it that, of the imperfect world in which we exist. Dreamers have the power to will their dreams to past. The power of the dream to transcend the individual as well as extend through out the ages is based on the willingness of the dreamer to deeply embody and personify the dream and express it to others. By this, dreamers cause a great disturbance in the imperfect, like lightening. Even if they die, the power of their dream and the magnitude of the disturbance they have made in the imperfect world has a lasting and perpetual impact even after they are gone. Once lightening strikes through the dreamer, the thunder is the after effect that follows that shakes up the imperfect world.
People try to kill dreamers by destroying their spirit. Dreamers are perceived to be dangerous because they cause such a disturbance to the ordinary and the familiar. People who are stuck in the imperfect feel threatened by those who dream because they disturb the foundations of what they believe to be true. Instead of feeling threatened, you must embrace and get connected to the dreamers. They help us to get out of the rut of the natural world.
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The Kingdom Corner 