A dream...

I started writing this yesterday, but I wasn't able to finish it. I still think it's worth posting.

Early this morning I decided not to wake up at my scheduled 7:30am wake up time. Instead I slept until 8:30, and I'm glad I did. During that hour of extra rest the Lord gave me a vision of a narrow dirt path running straight through a beautiful forest. The path itself was ugly, and just wide enough to walk on without touching the lush green forest around me. The forest was immaculate. The trees were thick, but perfectly spaced, and every needle and leaf was placed in just the right spot on the ground. The forest was much more inviting than the path, but I knew I had to keep walking on the path. The longerI walked on the path the more beautiful it became, and I stopped looking at the forest around me. By the end of my dream I realized that the beautiful forest had changed into a dead, overgrown, wasteland. The path was glowing and beautiful and lead to a beautiful place that I could only catch a glimpse of every once in awhile off in the distance. Just before I woke up I heard a voice saying, "Stay on the path."

God uses so many different ways to communicate with us, and for me He uses dreams. I have wandered off of His path so many times thinking that where I was going was beautiful, but I was wrong every time. Lately, I've been realizing how important it is for us as christians to not only block out the things around us that want to pull us off of God's path, but to realize how beautiful God's path is. I can't wait to see what is further on down the path.

~Matt