entitled to dream

All these moti­va­tional self-help videos with this law of attrac­tion stuff  are based on a very bold premise: I deserve. I am enti­tled to all these won­derful riches. Yes our Maker wants us to live life abun­dantly, and see sal­va­tion come through, but this may look very dif­ferent than we imagine. Yes I may dream of stuff, but the rela­tion­ship to my Maker should be the main focus, not the stuff. If you focus on the gifts, you inevitably need to avert your gaze from the giver. But SHe, your Maker, is the source and the core rela­tion­ship, from which all gifts, all pro­duc­tivity pour out. These unsearchable
(Eph 3:8 – untrace­able, bound­less) riches may come in poverty and per­se­cu­tion. With the rela­tion­ship in order, I may feel more blessed having less and seeing my life’s pur­pose work out, then becoming wealthier and more com­fort­able, but never filling this inner void. (Prov 15:17)

Our Sav­iour is the only true vine, and we are the branches. If we stay in him we will bear much fruit, and our live will, con­se­quently, flourish. Now if cut­ting our­selves off from this vine would result in us drying up and with­ering, it would be very obvious that we need to get back onto the vine. This would be if there was only a true vine, one source of vitality, and nothing else. But there is another, infe­rior, source. The adver­sary works with decep­tion. He binds us into traps by the lure of var­ious cheap thrills, com­forts, vices, pos­ses­sions that only work on our ego­cen­tricity and greed. The sev­ered branch gets hooked on a dif­ferent kind of water, glu­cose and var­ious chem­i­cals per­ceived as nutri­tious. These can fire us up and drive us into insanity or excel­lence, but ulti­mately we will miss our pur­pose. If he drives us clev­erly enough, we will either stop noticing our inner void, or belief firmer and firmer that only more pos­ses­sions and com­fort will fill it, and the more we’ll fail the harder we’ll try.

The pur­pose of life is not to enjoy it the most you can (Is 22:13; Prov 23:35; Lk 12:19; 1 Cor 15:32), the pur­pose of life is to con­nect. So dream by all means, med­i­tate, pray, love, remain in hope onto your Maker. But don’t fall for the deceit of knowing exactly what this con­nec­tion will lead you to. If you would, you’d be over­whelmed. This stuff you may be tempted to attract for your­self will turn out to be filthy crap by com­par­ison with your true purpose.

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