My son (that simple statement is filled with incredible love and pride) has a dream.
A couple of weeks ago my son Liam was working on homework at the dining room table and I was sitting on the couch messing around on my laptop. We were chatting away when Liam started talking about the dream he has for his life. Liam said, “I have a really big dream and it’s going to take a lot of work to accomplish.” I asked, “What’s your dream?” I thought that he would tell me that he dreamed to be a video game superstar or something, but what he said absolutely blew me away, humbled me and made question my own dreams, all at the same time.
So what is Liam’s dream? Liam said that his dream is “to tell everyone in the whole world about Jesus.” He said he didn’t know how he was going to do it yet, but he definitely going to do it.
Wow. It blew me away that at nine years old, my son has a God inspired and God focused dream. It humbled me that he is so clear on his dream and so sure that he will see it accomplished in his lifetime. It humbled me, because Liam’s dream is so focused on God’s Kingdom and not on himself...at nine my dream was to be an astronaut or a policeman. And it made me reflect on my dreams, how many of them are focused on what I want rather than on God’s Kingdom. Are my dreams about everyone knowing Christ, about God’s Kingdom coming? Or about stuff?
My prayer is that God would stir the flame that burns within Liam and that He would see the dream He has planted in Liam through to completion. And may Liam’s dream be my dream.
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