I had a dream that left me in great wonder. I dreamt that as I was traveling with a
friend, someone that I cannot remember, I lost my shoes on the way. I did recognize that these shoes were just a
pair of flip flops, not fastened well to my feet at all, and that is why they
easily fell off. I remember how upset
and worried I was not to have my shoes as we were traveling in areas where I
really needed them. Then we came upon two
horses , and my friend, again I don’t remember who this person was, encouraged
me to ride one horse as she would ride the other. I looked down at my feet with no shoes and
felt unprepared to take such a trip.
Then, out of no-where there laid a pair of nice brown boots beside the
horse. I was so excited as I felt the Holy
Spirit speak to me to put the shoes on.
They had a box next to them that my friend picked up in curiosity as to
who owned these shoes. She opened the
box and saw that they had no owner as there was a blank line next to the title
owner and as there was a key taped to the inside of the box indicating that
they were purposely not locked up but were meant to be found and given away
freely. She looked at me and confirmed
what I already heard the Holy Spirit tell me, “Well, these must be for
you.” I boldly took the boots and put
them on tight and soon pulled myself up on the horse and began to ride. We rode into new areas, places I had never
been, and were bound for an adventure. I
woke up as we were riding from the dream and continued to hear the voice of the
Holy Spirit explain to me each piece of the events I had experienced. He pointed out how the use of the flip flops
were only to be for a season, as they were only a temporary help, and clearly
explained that the brown boots would be provided prior to the mounting on of a
new experience. He said that the season
of waiting for the boots to be provided required my trust and faith in
Him. I remembered how my emotions went
from comfort with wearing the flip flops, to distraught over having lost them,
and then great joy having received a better pair of shoes that fastened tightly
and were impossible to lose. How this
relates to my life now and what I am going through strikes amazing similarities,
however, I feel that I am still in the waiting phase of greater provision
before the next step in my life, the season where the Holy Spirit commands me
to wait and trust. I love how He speaks
to me in these pictures, these dreams, and how He continues to confirm them as
I seek Him. Only two days before this
dream I was listening to some well needed worship music to the Lord, feeling
that distraught feeling of having lost my comfortable flip flops and now standing
before my God with no shoes on my feet, humbled and broken in His
presence. I listened to one particular
song five times over in that afternoon alone with Him and each time felt the
Holy Spirit move me to tears as the words in the song became my groan and cry
from my spirit to His. Calmer of the
Storm--
“Teach me Lord to have faith in what your bringing me, that
will change my life and bring you glory.
There on the storm I am learning to let go of the will that I so long to
control. There may I be in your arms
eternally, I thank you Lord, You are the calmer of the storm.”
As I stand in this storm His grace brings me to learn and
understand that He is not invisible, that He uses my struggle to stand on my
own for His glory, that He will continue to lead and direct me, and that I must
let go of my hold on my own will and choose to trust His will for my life. My life has continual crossroads where God
takes me through situations, testing my faith and my continual willingness to
obey Him, in order to bring me to a new level of intimacy with Him. The day that God decides not to challenge my
willingness to obey and follow Him will be a sad day that I don’t want to ever
take place. I choose to ride this storm
with His strength, for His glory, and with a willingness to let go of my own
will in order take what He desires most for me to have, His hand and a pair of
new brown boots to ride a horse called adventure.
