God wants to awaken things in us; things we thought were dead may simply be asleep within us
I would say inspiring others around me would be my “goal in life,” if I ever had to answer some ridiculous questionnaire for an application.
To be more specific and in-depth, stirring and drawing out who each individual is in how God created them to be would more accurately describe it.
It is one of my greatest passions and is most fulfilling for me when God has given me insight to help something deep inside another person come to life . . . a sort of awakening, at least the beginnings of it.
That’s what it means to me when I say to inspire.
To me, it means to awaken.
I don’t think things can completely die in us . . . although in some harder cases certain desires and dreams may perhaps go into prolonged states of something like a coma.
I know it’s true because I have talked to many humans in their elder years of life leaking out unhidden regrets and lingering dreams that just never went away . . . haunted them as it seemed.
It’s like those dreams or desires lay hidden under the cloak of darkness deep within their old hearts.
No, I don’t think those things can die within us . . . desires, dreams, passions.
They can be ignored or neglected or suppressed so deep within us it is like they are asleep.
But even if they could truly die, could not God awaken them?
“Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but now I will go and wake him up.”
That word used for “sleep“ in the Bible is funny because it doesn’t necessarily have just one meaning.
It can either mean actually asleep as we would say . . . or in another actuality, to be deceased . . . no longer living.
It is interesting to me though that when used in other scriptures, this same word is used for sleeping instead of death.
To us, there is death, but to God, there is more than death.
Sleeping would mean that you can be awakened.
Think about this . . . if you had a power that surpassed death . . . it was not bound by it . . . would death actually exist to you?
I believe that is just a taste of the perspective our Creator has when He looks at us.
When He looks at your life, He sees many things that have fallen asleep within you.
Dreams are birthed from desires which are either fed by or starved of passion.
So what dreams have been asleep within you? What desires often come knocking at the door of many thoughts?
We are taught Lazarus was “raised” back to life, but is that really what happened?
Or, was Lazarus awakened from a sleep we don’t quite understand?
God wants to awaken things in us; things we thought were dead may simply be asleep within us.
Dreams that maybe should have died because we neglected them and were so discouraged in our unbelief, we gave up on them to sink down into some lost darkness deep within us.
God wants to awaken us.
He wants to awaken who He created us to be, right now, into who we become later on.
What dreams . . . desires . . . seemingly crazy ideas lingering in the depths of you?
They are being called out by your Father that they would be awakened from slumber.
“Father, thank you for hearing me. You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.” Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”
Scripture from John 11:11 & 41-43