Little Boys With Big Dreams

If we go to Philippians Chapter 3: from verse 12:

“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

This morning, very, very early, I received a most beautiful letter from the United States of America, from a young man who I am mentoring.

It stirred me up so much. And in the letter he wrote, he said little boys with big dreams don’t always materialize.

They don’t always turn out the way we expected them to and we feel like failures so often.

We feel like we have failed our wives, we have failed our children, we haven’t succeeded in our careers, our jobs but as men, we don’t want to admit it so we build walls around our hearts, and we put tough exteriors around us to hide the disappointment and the failure.

Oh, my dear friend, I want to say to you today, as I wrote to that fine young man, please live your dream.

We pass this way but once and then the judgment.

Let us cast aside those things which have disappointed us and let us look on to Jesus, the Author, and the Perfecter of our faith.

I am living my dream - and I really mean that and many times people have tried to put me down.

My headmaster told my mother when I was a little boy, “Take him out of school. He will never amount to much.”

I hope I can meet my headmaster in Heaven one day, and I am going to ask him how many books did he write?

No, that was nasty - I shouldn’t have said that.

But I want to say, live your dream.

Don’t allow the devil to break you down.

He is a liar and a thief.

God created you in His own image and you can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens you. Philippians Chapter 4 and verse 13.