Dreams

Last night I had a weird dream.  I often don't share my dreams on here, mostly because they can be extremely strange and sometimes violent. 

This one though, struck a cord and so I'm sharing it here.

In this dream I found myself surrounded by a bunch of people who were having their prayers answered. In my heart I was crying out to God, asking Him why I wasn't being heard. The response I got was along the lines of,"Are you faithful to Me?"

When my eyes opened at 3:00AM this morning, I felt frustrated. 

As I laid in my bed, I asked myself a question: have I been faithful to God this past week? Though I wanted to say, "Yeah, sure I have. I'm Christian, aren't I? Just being a believer is proof enough that I am faithful." I tried to reason with myself that this was the answer I needed when I knew in my deepest soul that it wasn't so. 

Right now, the Lord is stretching me. Pulling me here and there; causing growth that I didn't think was needed (my perspective is a bit different than my Makers').

O Lord, during this time of growth, make me pliable!