Beyond Your Wildest Dreams

"Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”" Matthew 19:26 (NIV)

“Beyond Your Wildest Dreams!” It sounds of something from a romance novel or a fairytale. It sounds like something a child would believe in. After all, children dream big dreams. They dream of becoming princesses, being superheroes, winning ten Olympic gold medals and having the most adventurous careers imaginable. What makes children dream big dreams? My first thought was that when you’re a child everything is beyond you. Whether it’s working at a fast food restaurant or flying to the moon, it’s beyond your reach. So why not dream big? But when I asked this question in front of my ten year old daughter, she quickly gave me the real answer. “Because ANYTHING is possible Mom!”

As parents, we also dream big dreams for our children. We look at our newborns and tell them they can become anything they set their minds too. The sky is the limit. The world is at their fingertips.

The crazy thing is that we grow up, and as we do, our dreams shrink. We no longer believe that we might find a knight in shining armor and become a princess. We realize that we don’t possess superhuman powers to save the world. We recognize that we are not as athletic as the other kids and we’re not going to win even one bronze medal. Or maybe grades weren’t good enough and that super career is out of the picture.

Isn’t it wonderful to know that you have a Heavenly Father who still dreams AMAZINGLY BIG dreams for you? It’s true. Before you were yet formed, he gazed at you and wrote down every day ordained for you in His eternal story. (Psalm 139:15-16) He looks at you through an eternal perspective and sees the truth of who you really are, His child…a child of the King. His plan for you is eternal and yet minutely detailed and it's bigger than you could ever imagine. In fact, when I look through scripture, I find that God’s dreams look much more like the big dreams of a child than the limited dreams of most grown ups. His dreams are not limited by your abilities or inabilities. They’re not limited at all. After all, God agrees with my ten year old. “Anything is possible!”