Over the
past many years, people from various countries write to me about their dreams
for interpretation (through email or WhatsApp). This is after my book on dreams
and visions was published and brought out as an App. One such email came in
today.
The sender
wrote….. Sir, I admire your book titled dreams
and all its interpretation, please can you help me with this dream. Often time
I dream and find myself in a place filled with filth or everywhere littered
with it, and as much as I try for it not to touch me, it rubs on me and at
time's I might be the one stretching my hands and touching the filth. I don't
know what this means.
This is a simple dream to interpret and
it relates to most of us believers. We as believers in Jesus Christ, as we live
in this world, are surrounded by filth (lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and
pride of life) and as the person writes, “as much as I try for it not to touch
me, it rubs on me”, meaning we all are tempted in one way or the other by these
lusts and sometimes we fall to temptations and sin.
The final sentence that he writes about
is how we wilfully stretch our hands to touch the filth. Though we know that
something that we are going to say, see or do is unrighteous or sinful in God’s
eyes, we do it anyway, just to please our flesh.
There’s always a war going on in our
beings, Spirit against the flesh and it will be a war that will last till we
step in to eternity (eternal life, if we are in Jesus Christ).
Regarding this, the Apostle Paul writes
to the churches in Galatia…”I say
then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the
flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against
the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do
the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are
not under the law. Now the
works of the flesh are adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of
wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders,
drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I
also told you in time
past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of
God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness
and self-control. Against such there is no law. Those who are Christ’s have
crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit,
let us also walk in the Spirit." (Galatians 5:16-25)
Crucifying the flesh with its passions and desires and
walking in the Spirit- It’s definitely a difficult task that we have on our
hands, but we are all called to do it, for only that will please our Father in
Heaven and Jesus Christ our Savior.
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