Do Dreams Come True?

Every girl has a dream.
For each girl that dream will be different depending on the her background, what her families beliefs are and what her personality is.

But I think that the most popular dream would be to one day get married (to an amazing guy), have a family and live happily ever after.
Some girls may go into more deeper detail with their dreams (like what he will/must look like, how many kids your gonna have,... ect).
Some girls really don't care about the details.
But every girl has a dream for their future.

When I was little I used to dream of being a zoo keeper, a christian bandleader, a hairdresser or a veterinarian.
And always there... was the dream of having a family.

Some of those dreams were unrealistic and just fun to think about (I wouldn't really care to be a zoo keeper anymore :), some have come true to some degree (I'm the "hairdresser" of the family and we kinda have a "family band" and I usually take care of our animals if they are sick) and the dream of having my own family has become a part of me.

When I became more "of age" these dreams become so vivid and alive that it is was almost painful sometimes.
I dreamt of how our courtship will be, what my wedding will be like, how amazing it will be to have and raise a child/children of my own someday, and how awesome it would be to do missions with my family.

Then I started thinking. Am I letting my dreams become so important to me that they are taking over what God might have planned for my life?
Is God giving me these desires? Or am I just making them up?

I tried several times to give my dreams to the Lord and let Him be the author of my future, but it was all kind of just half hearted. Something I did to try to make myself "ok" with God.

I still thought ALOT about my dreams for my future.

Then God spoke to me one day and said "you haven't really given your future to me".
I knew in my heart that I hadn't, but this was something that was SO hard for me to let go.
What if God didn't want me to get married?
What if it wasn't in His plan for me to have children and become a missionary?
I couldn't even stand the thought, let alone give it all up to possibly being an "old maid" or never being able to have children.

Then as I was reading the bible this scripture verse popped out at me:

Ephesians 1:4-5

4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the

world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 

 ⁵Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

 

God has chosen us to be His children. He has chosen me.

It wasn't OUR choice to let God have us, it was HIS choice for us to be His, right from the beginning.

If He chose us to be His children and He had "good pleasure" in choosing us... wouldn't He have our BEST interest in mind?

If God chose me to be His child, that means that He has a plan for my life, a perfect plan. 

And then there is this verse....

 1 Corinthians 2:9 

⁹But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

I felt like crying when I first read this verse, isn't it beautiful?

It's the verse that made me be able to give up my hopes and dreams and entrust my future into God's hands.

He has a BIG plan, and I want MY plan to be what GOD has already planned.

I don't want my desires to get in the way, no matter how much I want them.

My focus changed. Sure I still do think about my future, and where I would like my life to go, but it is with a different mindset now.

I'm okay with letting it all go.
I've given the Lord my hopes and my dreams, what He choses to do with them is not up to me.
I'm not holding on to anything.

My dreams have become what God wants for my life.

Do dreams come true?
Maybe, but I think that the most important question to ask is...


Who holds my dreams?


❀ Jennifer