I had a very short dream this morning.  I and some loved ones were cleaning the house.  I don’t know what I was doing but I was not cleaning I was organizing or polishing or something.

Someone sent someone somewhere else to do something else and I asked to be able to go clean.  The newer member of the family said to me, “Are you sure you want to do that?  You don’t do well when it comes to detail”.

His comment was true and it cut my heart like a knife.  I woke from the dream and did not go back to sleep.

For hours this morning I have pondered the meaning of this dream and it is not obscure.  In fact it reveals something that all men struggle with.  And though that is true it is not less painful to speak of it.  In this topic there is no safety in numbers.

There are great men and there are small men.  There are some who are able to do wonderous things, and there are some who can barely learn to tie their shoes by themselves.  The pitiful thing is that the majority of us fall somewhere in between.  We are neither great, so as to be praised nor small, so as to be coddled.  Most of us are forced to accept who we are, silently suffering a peculiar loss.

Please forgive the length of this article, but there is more to discuss.

In this world we have tribulation.  Men will push each other out of the way.  Men will kill one another.  Men will despise one another.   And men will trample one another.  You will be told you don’t matter in a variety of ways.  And if by chance this “telling” falls on truth your shame is within you.  So their attack is far more painful than they realize.  Yes, in this world we have tribulation.

If this were the extent of our being who could stand to live another moment.  But there is something that is so much more than flesh.  There is a life that is not full of tribulation.  And without further adieu, I introduce you to Jesus, The Son of God.

He will accept you specifically as you are; even as you grow in Him, or possibly regress from time to time.  In him there is no abuse because you are not the greatest.  There is hope for every one of his people to become what they envision they are able to become.  And where do his people get their vision?  They receive from the Word of God, the Bible

All that the Lord asks of us is that we continue to try.  Now someone may ask me, “Try what”? Let us allow the Lord to speak on his own behalf in this matter.

“He has shown you, O mortal,
what is good.

And what does the LORD require of you?

To act justly and to love mercy

and to walk humbly (prudently) with
Your God.  (Micah 6: 8)

And if by chance you find you are unable to do any of those three, the living God is quite able to teach you how. 

In Jesus there is freedom to be least, as well as freedom to be great.  Only bring him your desire.  Only believe in him.  Only wait on the Lord.

By His Grace.