As little girls we were told to dream big, shoot for the stars, and take hold of the future that is ours. So we dreamed about being doctors or mommies or authors or a million other heroic aspirations.
We boldly told others about what we would do or who we would become – painting the picture for them so they could see it too. Some would smile brightly and encourage us to keep dreaming – telling us how much they believed in us. But the smile of others might have been more like a sneer and their words more of discouragement – telling us we weren’t the type or not smart enough to reach such high goals.
Ouch!
Despite our best efforts to shut them out, the voice of the discouraging would often out-shout the voice of the encouraging in our hearts. The temptation was to stop dreaming, believing, reaching for those God-given dreams planted deep inside. The temptation was to believe that person saw something lacking in us that we didn’t recognize. The temptation was to stop, settle, and perhaps even agree with their lie.
Then God reminds us what He thinks.
Clear lots of ground for your tents! Make your tents large. Spread out! Think big! Use plenty of rope, drive the tent pegs deep. You’re going to need lots of elbow room
for your growing family. You’re going to take over whole nations; you’re going to resettle abandoned cities.
Don’t be afraid—you’re not going to be embarrassed. Don’t hold back—you’re not going to come up short. You’ll forget all about the humiliations of your youth,
and the indignities of being a widow will fade from memory.
Isaiah 54:2-4 MSG
Not only does the Lord speak encouragement to us, He does it with certainty about the outcome! He tells us to dream big. Run hard. Laugh loud – louder than any cynic – because He is confident about the result. If our God is for us, who can be against us?!
Beautiful dreamer, it is time to be bold again. Clear the ground, stretch out, and entrust your dreams to the One who planted them in your heart. He is confident of the outcome and you can be too. After all…
You are adored.
You Are Adored 