IS GOD SPEAKING TO YOU?

IS GOD SPEAKING TO YOU?

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Interpretation of BOYS, MAY I PLAY TOO?

This is only one interpretation please share in the comments what this dream said to you!

BOYS, MAY I PLAY TOO?
Eight school age boys were on their knees in a circle, playing a game of marbles. The game was in the middle of a nearly deserted city street. The buildings on either side looked boarded up and lifeless. No cars were parked on the street. One car drove past, honking at the boys to move, then the driver, exasperated went around them. The marble players never looked up. Eight-this means something and I believe it has something to do with the “world view”. In this world there is no life but through us. We have become very self absorbed and distracted from being “involved” in this world.The boys wore ragged clothes. Some had their knees exposed, sticking out through threadbare jeans. Others had rips in their wrinkled shirts and jerseys. One common identity was the baseball cap on each head, turned backward and covering kinky, stringy, or shaggy cut hair. There were smudged faces, grubby hands and dirt under finger nails. But the street dirt had been meticulously brushed away from the chalked circle that held their marbles. For the most part the players were quiet and completely absorbed in the game. This world has beat us up in many ways and often we appear and “feel” unloved yet the Lord comes and brushes a way to give us “new” life through Him. I believe often we can be playing on His playing field and not totally realize it.I looked down the empty street and was surprised to see a large, luminous ball of light, moving rapidly toward the marble players. The boys were unaware, never looking up, they remained intent upon what they were doing. His timing is amazingly perfect! At first I thought oh no we need to be expectant and be fully engaged to be aware of when He comes yet probably for the first time in my life I saw this in a new way. This is trust knowing to be about the business at hand knowing God will speak and reveal to us as He “wills”When the light was about a block away, it stopped and began fading. A tall man stepped out of the light and walked toward the boys. He wore a luminous white robe with gold straps across his chest. From his burnished belt, a leather marble bag dangled. When he stopped in front of the circle of boys, they became suddenly aware of him. They began elbowing each other, nodding or pointing in his direction. Several commented on the white baseball cap the stranger wore. It had been turned backwards and pulled down over long, dark hair. This truly gives me chills each time I read it….this is bigger than I am yet I pray He leads me to what He wants me to know……He is our Lion, Our Abba Daddy, He is so much bigger than what we could possible fathom but He comes to us often in our game, on our terms and becomes lesser than He is for us to completely absorb Him in a new way. This is often what we do wrong, we believe we must get to His new way and we miss being completely suited up and taught in a way we can completely understand so we aren’t fully equipped this is why He tells us “Be Still and KNOW that I am God”! He comes to us each minute of the day and wants to be involved in everything we do!“Sure, Mister” said the biggest boy. “Lets see what you can do.” I can almost see this child, his face, his body….not overweight, yet very thick and solid…..a big kid with a big heart!The boys shifted position, making room. They watched intently as he pulled out a large, glowing white “shooter” from his leather bag, then knelt down in their circle ready to play. Let us make room for you Jesus, let us make room…..thank you for always being so patient sometimes that shifting is inch by inch until finally we shove everything out of the way because we are finally done with doing it our way!!! The biggest boy announced, “We’ll start the game over.” He gathered all the marbles in his hands and threw them down, helter skelter in the circle. He nodded to the stranger, “OK, Go Man!” Once again, smart boy, oh I pray we all know when to turn the game to Him and “start over” giving Him the reins…this is often what it is like when the Lord comes into our lives and it is “helter skelter” yet our mistake is that we still try to get involved in “His turn” of the game. The white robed stranger took careful aim and knocked every marble out of the circle. If two marbles were close together, they both went out, accompanied by the intake of breath from the watching boys. Look at what He can do when we truly say, “OK GO MAN (GOD)! This reminds me there are times of our lives that He has to take everything out for Him to be the only one left standing with us, no more of our fake gods!The stranger rose up from his knees, retrieved the wonderful white “shooter” and tossed it to the one of the smaller boys. He smiled, turned and walked back in the direction he had come from, down the deserted street. I get that this is the Holy Spirit….love that it is for everyone yet in this vision it is to the smaller boy…whew this is delightful! The boys scrambled quickly to their feet. “Hey, wait!” They wanted MORE of HIM!!!!!They left behind whatever they had brought with them, including their precious marbles, except for the white “shooter”. They ran, urging the smaller ones along, propelled in his direction. The last I saw of them, the boys were surrounding the white robed man. Some grabbed his hand, some grabbed his robe. The man picked up the smallest boy and put him on his shoulders. They were laughing and talking, until the luminous ball of light enveloped them all and disappeared. This truly rocked my world as I read it aloud the Holy Spirit just came upon me in a new way like never before! This is His desire for us to truly get wrapped up in His light and we are no longer walking on our own. This is Hebrews 12 that we allow everything to be walked away from that is NOT of Him!Suddenly the street was no longer deserted. Cars were driving back and forth. People were walking on the sidewalks. Stores were open and doing business. Life was back to normal, but not so for eight little boys who ran after the man who knew how to win at marbles. When we allow Him to truly come to us there is new life like never before….the dry desert in the beginning is often the wilderness we are in yet as we run after Him we are pressed into Him. Let our lives never be “back to normal”! “Boys, may I play too?”

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