In my dream, I'm about half way up from the water. |
I am seated on the edge of that cliff with my other foot still on the cliff. I don't know if it is under me, or pointed out in front of me. I think it is in front but that doesn't make sense with the rest of the dream...... My left side is against the cliff wall to my left. It goes up a long way. I can't see how high from where I'm seated, only when I back up (looking at myself - it's a dream, you know) can I see how really high up the cliff is, both above me and below me. My right leg dangles high above whatever is below. I can't tell but I THINK it is the ocean, or perhaps some body of water. You know how sometimes in a dream you just know things that aren't really part of the dream? Well that's what I'm talking about.
In the dream, my only activity is that I'm creeping forward on that cliff, on my rear end. It's too high and the ledge is too narrow for me to stand to move forward. So, I'm on my rear..... not making much progress. As I see me from a distance, I see that I've come a long way but still have a long way to go. I also know that the sun is behind me, that it's dark or less bright where I'm headed. I look behind me to see if I want to continue going forward or if I want to turn back. I don't know how I'd do that but that's what I'm thinking..... in my dream. I also get the impression that this isn't the whole dream. It's like this is a continuation somehow of a previous dream that I can't exactly remember having.
Well, I woke up completely confused. I had a sense of....something after waking up, I can't even remember now. I don't know what it means. I can guess that it might mean that I'm heading the wrong direction (because the sun is behind me) but, in what part of my life? Maybe it means that I'm on a slippery slope, heading for darkness and danger in some aspect of my life, that I'm walking a narrow, dangerous path. But how?
This morning, my devotion included reading from Daniel, specifically in chapter 5 where fingers from a human hand appear and write on the plaster wall. When I read it I thought that it would be nice if God would write on the wall for me, so I'd know what He wants, if the dream is a message for me. But in this case, the writing on the wall made the king distraught. He didn't know what the writing meant. I wonder why. Where these words or letters he didn't understand, like a foreign language? Were they symbols that didn't mean anything to the king? We don't know except that his people couldn't tell him what the writing meant. So he eventually sent for Daniel who interpreted the writings on the wall. The interpretation doesn't mean anything to me. It doesn't make it any easier to interpret my dream from last night.
I am a little rattled. But I know God will get through to me if He wants to. He has before. I just hope I obey better than the king did. He was dead in a few hours!
Dear Father, enlighten me. Tell me what the dream means....if I'm supposed to know. If I'm not doing as I should, make me know. I don't want to be like the arrogant king. Amen.
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