“I dreamed a dream so real it was as real as me sitting here today,” Marco explained to me last week while I was in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “I was in a long, wide line of people, about 5 or 6 people abreast. As we advanced we came to a man standing at the crossroads facing us. To the majority he motioned to go to his left. Now and then he would send a solitary person to his right. When my turn came he motioned for me to go to his left.
Immediately I began to worry,” he continued. “Why was I sent to his left with the large majority?” He asked himself. “This means I will be lost. How is it that I will be lost?” Immediately an angel responded to his unspoken question. “You almost were saved.”
“Almost saved? What caused me to be lost?” The angel responded once again. “Because you were careless on the small details.”
“Oh how I wish I could go back and care for those many small details.” Marco thought to himself. “Imagine losing eternal life because I was careless on the small details.” Immediately the angel spoke to him again and answered his thoughts, “God has granted your request. You will be given a second chance.”
“Immediately I awoke,” Marco told me. “I was so happy it was only a dream, and I determined from now on I will care for the small details because I now know that God is interested in the small details.”
Marco’s wife just had a very vivid dream a few months ago. In that dream an angel made it clear that they were to quickly obey God’s instructions about country living and expected them to obey promptly. Marco and his wife have sold their home in the city and are even now moving to the country. “What God says is important and He means what he says. So we are obeying.”
I hope you have been blessed and encouraged to pay attention to the small details of what God has told us to do. I am praying that He will help me to be obedient in many small details as well.
Which of the two paths are you on?
Happy Sabbath from the front lines,
Uncle David